Horizon: File 025 (They Walk the Earth)

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FILE 025: THEY WALK THE EARTH

I said in my first ever post that I discovered something that quite literally turned my life around. Of course, I was referring to Horizon, but from my discovery of Horizon my world very rapidly span out of control. My life was turned around by Horizon, but it was more than that. It was the loss of my daughter, Eleanor, but it was also the information I learnt about myself.

And it was this information that caused me to have my breakdown, one that I've only recently recovered from.

God, where do I start?

Okay, so I last left you with me returning the Angel Ring to Tempestia, a literal, god-damn Angel...! We need to rewind before I go into that.

So Simon Roper wanted to tell me about what happened to him in Hell. So I allowed him. At this point the poor guy had been through enough for one lifetime and he looked as though he had kept this bottled up inside him for an eternity. And so he told me.

Told me how Horizon had found a doorway into Hell itself. How they had opened up some strange, dark opening in the depths of a pit in Malta. He told me that he didn't believe that Hell was underneath us, but that what they found was simply one of the many doorways that could lead you to Hell. No sooner had he escaped, however, than it had closed up. Horizon never found their way in again.

But it was what he discovered in Hell that obliterated anything that I thought I knew about myself. He told me that the woman, identified in the database as Subject 3 - the Electric Woman, had spoken to him. She asked him what he knew about those that walked the Earth. She had hurt him. He was tight-lipped on how, but every time he thought of it his hand would go to his scarred face. And he insisted that what she did to him wasn't important. It's what she had spoken to him about. She had told him that she was looking for something - for someone. That someone she knew had come to Earth. Had come to our world.

I had made another cuppa for us so Simon could compose himself, but I felt he needed something stronger. He had refused, wishing to remain clear-headed.

He continued. He had managed to locate the doorway back out of Hell, but before he had escaped, the Electric Woman had told him that an Angel walked the Earth and she was looking for her.

For her.

And it was at that moment that Simon Roper had informed me that he believed that I, Zoe Parish, was that Angel.

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