“Haste makes waste.”
The Hare* #quote
Looks like CJ is coming over tomorrow as planned. What wacky
shenanigans shall ensue? Sorry, that's classified. Anyway onto the
flash fiction!
The Sane Man
In a land far away, though not in a manner that can be traveled by
foot, car, or plane, a man rot in a dungeon for years upon years.
Many rot in the same dungeon as him. This dungeon in this land had
properties that no normal prison possessed. The magic of the land
allowed the prisoners to live without eating, and live longer than
their natural lifespans.
When thrown in the prison the box door shut, a single window let in
light, and the prisoner went forgotten. Unable to kill themselves as
well they just sat alone forever and the only thing the prison system
took note of them was whether or not the room was occupied and the
sentence length.
Murderers and people convicted of crimes such a treason often went
inside. The madness they experienced usually left them to commit
suicide as soon as they were outside the magical prison that kept
them from killing themselves. Another case is that the place left
their minds so wrecked that they were rehabilitated from a
psychological mess.
Two hundred year sentences(or more) of solitary often did this to
people.
The one man who rot at this moment was released but showed no sign
of madness. He just smiled and talked normally. This shocked people
more than anything. The magical stasis of the prison usually set
people into blubbering messes. This particular man spent five hundred
years in the prison. The only reason that people didn't want to use
the prison's sustaining magic for immortality is so that they
wouldn't go mad from being trapped and the way the it forces you
hungry and still.
The man only had some difficulty adapting to the new technology and
adapting to new language. But he acted calm and collected. Completely
unlike any sentenced individual.
Until he died he never showed any signs of insanity to the world.
But in secret he would talk to the imaginary friends and family he
created in the prison to keep him company for all those years.
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