Pandora's Box

Three days had passed since Pandora's disappearance.
Emilia was the last one she had spoken to and felling sorry that refused to follow her best friend for a walk.
Maybe if she had met her the situation will be different.
Next day, after the disappearance, Emilia had received a box from an unknown recipient.
A small old wooden chest, hermetically sealed with a candle stamp.
Underside, it was carved her name and a phrase “don't open it”.
She took the box and looked her idol in the mirror.
The mind drift away, her form transformed into Mythical Pandora, when Dias gave her the jar but ordered to do not open it..
Envisioned that she was biblical Eve with the forbidden apple.

Countless thoughts flooded her head.

What if, she opening the box and releasing a deadly virus?
What if, an unknown person would die, like in the movie “the Box”?
What if, all that, have related with Pandora?
Perhaps inside there was a letter from her friend that explains the reasons for her disappearance.

She filled a glass of wine an put Beethoven to relax from her thoughts.
The nostalgic notes from “Silence” traveled in every spot of the room.
Pandora's absence was intense.
She drank a big sip and let curiosity win.
Like mythical Pandora and biblical Eve, made the forbidden and broke the seal.

Empty...

This was a very bad joke!
Threw the box on the floor desperately and cried with sobs.
A burning smell get inside her nose, but exhaustion didn't allowed her to react.

She slept....
The clock stooped....

Dressed in white, was walking on the water but didn't sank.
At each step turbulence created little tides.
From her hands beams of light, led her towards inside the darkness.
It was the green lake at the next village that used to spent most of her summers for swimming.
She stopped by making her hands punches.
A strange man with tedious heavy steps approached and stood a bit away.
He left the fishing tackle and looked suspiciously all around.
He didn't see her.
Emilia wanted to see his face clearly.
The curiosity once again dominated.
She went nearer to him and as the man turned abruptly there eyes met.

An electric wave penetrated her body.

Consecutive images passed through her eyes.
Terrifying pictures...
A dirty with soil little girl was crying.
A woman with bloody fingers.
Another girl was wet all over and screaming for help.
A dead naked body, someone was trying to get out of a box as the air was ending... Pandora!

The electric wave faded from the body and Emilia was lying calmly on the water.
Pandora as an angel, was blowing air and leading her out of the lake near to the forest.
She stood up and walked few steps ahead when a stack of stones like a little totem blocked her way. The smell of burning confirm of what she was afraid. She looked around and there where many like this. Now she knew, Pandora was dead, her cadaver was there.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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