Adieu

As the water went up the cage, its natural instinc made it began seeking for more air to breath. Its little feet move up and down as it moved around at the top of the cage. First with full speed and then slower, and slower, and slower…

I closed my eyes while holding the cage deeper and deeper. It swam to the right, left, right, and left. Still searching for little air to breathe.

“Please hurry up and die. It kills my soul to see you suffer like this. So please die sooner and faster little thing,” the sentences kept on repeating in my head.

Suddenly it stopped moving. I opened my eyes and saw to my own eyes. The body drowned. It sank to the bottom of the cage. I held it down a little longer to convince myself that it had died. Finally, the suffer ends.

I pulled the little cage up and found the little body lied in one corner. No movement detected. So stiff and silent. So dead…

“I’m sorry but I have no other choices,” I whispered as I laid my eyes upon it.

I opened the cage and it slid down into the water. Slowly, the guilt came taking over my heart. That was it, my first killing. I watched my victim for some time as the little body quickly sank to the bottom of the gutter. And it remained there for the rest of the day.

Adieu little mouse... Adieu...