[ WP ] '' It 's no use watering dead flowers ''

We were stuck in these woods with that monster. This was his playground and we'd fallen right into his trap. The trees were his eyes, the earth was his ears, and the greenery was his fingers. His fingers had found their way around my friend's throat. The thorns sunk into her paling flesh as she choked on the blood the blocked her airway. I had never felt as powerless as I did now. There was a wind singing through the barren branches that seemed to carry a humming tune. He drew nearer. I cried tears of grief and anger, knowing that I was being tortured for the fun of it. There was no reason he could n't have killed us sooner. 
 
 In the silvery light of the moon, I saw him approach. With my friend's head cradled in my arms and my legs firmly tucked beneath me, I did not run. I could n't move. I had accepted my fate, I just wanted it to be over, quickly and painlessly. He had his fun. The creature was stark white, dressed in an old gardener's clothes. They were caked black with soil and blood such that they seemed a suit. He stood several heads above me, and took pride in looking down upon the scene of his design. There was a gleeful smile stretched from ear to ear in a jagged line. It revealed his teeth, dozens of gleaming hoary blades filling his despicable maw. 
 
 I watched his serpentine tongue dart around their edges as his beady eyes remained fixed upon me. I began to cry harder, thinking about those final moments. His teeth ripping my flesh. My bones being ground and churned as I died from the pain of it all. His blood-smeared smile as he dined upon our corpses. The warm one for dinner and the cold one for dessert. Tears cascaded down my cheeks as I involuntarily clenched my eyes. My tears fell upon my lifeless friend as I sobbed loudly. When I opened them again, he was no longer in view. 
 
 “ It's no use watering dead flowers, my dear, ” he said as he leaned in closely to my ear, doubled twice over. His gangly limbs grasped me and he began his harvest. 
 
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