Enchantment
I wasn't looking for anything. I was walking along the side corridor of the school, the one that almost no one uses because it is far from the classrooms and it is always half dark. The doorbell had already rang, but there were still people hanging around. Laughter, hurried steps, doors closing. Then the noise died down. Not all at once. As if someone had turned down the volume of the world. I saw them there. Three girls leaning near the stairs at the back. They didn't seem lost. They seemed... out of place. The light in the corridor did not touch them in the same way as the rest, as if something invisible separated them from the environment. One of them took a step forward. The air changed. Nothing strange happened at first glance. No one shouted. No one ran. But I felt that strange pressure in my chest, the one that makes people start imagining things that don't exist yet. Fear. I noticed it in others before I did. In how they slowed down. In how they avoided looking. In how they accelerated their pace without knowing why. The girl across the street looked me straight in the eye.
About Enchantment
I wasn't looking for anything. I was walking along the side corridor of the school, the one that almost no one uses because it is far from the classrooms and it is always half dark. The doorbell had already rang, but there were still people hanging around. Laughter, hurried steps, doors closing. Then the noise died down. Not all at once. As if s...Read more