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Everything was blurry and it made no sense to me. One minute I was trying to walk myself back home, hoping to wash off the troubles of the day and leave everything behind to continue the next day. Entertaining more people just to get the last crumbled up dollars from their pocket and listen to them try to flirt with slurred words as if that would do something to get me to see them after work hours. It was something I grew used to saying no to and waiting till the late hours of the night to finally walk home since some of the men in their drunken state would follow me home. Or the women would tell me they need a boy like me to satisfy them and they can do more than what a man could.

All of them are weird interactions that make me hate working on the really busy nights, but those nights bring me so much money I can live in comfort knowing I have nothing to worry about since everything is paid off in advance when I get the chance. It was nothing out of the normal for me. But as I was walking and trying to get out of the way, a car had came right me, the next thing I knew I was on the ground and could barely move anything without feeling any pain. Everything hurt, it was hard to breathe, and everything was blurry and muffled.

I remember seeing bright lights before everything went black. I thought I was dying and knew this was my time, knowing no one in my family would come and claim my dead body since they hate the fact I get paid to show so much skin and dance for those throwing money to me with nothing more. But instead of me dying, I opened my eyes to see the outline of eight men, their bodies sitting on thrones with spikes, some had blooming flowers, other had dead and wilted flowers with soft embers floating around but I could only see the outline of the men. They all surrounded me, I felt like I was being set on display till with figures staring at me, nothing more else I could do about it.

"Drink the cup in front of you, and you will live. But there is a price." I heard a stern voice say, the main one in front of me gestured. Looking down there was a large black wine cup filled with a red liquid. For all I knew it could be wine. I tried to look him in the eyes but there was nothing there. But then I could hear a deep voice follow after his. "Drink that cup, and you won't be able to die, no matter how anyone tried. You will get everything you want, but you will meet all of us slowly and surely. And we will do whatever we want with you. If you choose to keep living."