Aef and Eaf

          "Hello!" someone screamed from the infinite darkness.
"Anyone out there?!" another scream more helpless than the one before...
           Than the world fell silent, the screamer swallowed by the black hole of nothingness. There were no casualties, no one would miss the voice which tried so hard to save itself, no one... And as he spiraled into oblivion, as he tried to swallow every last tear of self pity, though no one was there to judge him, he knew that all was lost. With this in mind the screamer closed his eyes and gave up as many did before him. He did not notice the tiny speck of light that flickered before him, the tiny speck of hope that could have saved him. Nothing mattered anymore, he no longer possessed his status, he no longer had his name, he was no longer a man, just a body of mindless matter falling to the floor.

         Two figures approached the body, they were skinny and old, fragile looking, with long white hair, sharp noses and tired looking eyes. Their frail old bodies were covered in spider webs, leaving their long crocked limbs bare and free to creak as they like. Their lips were covered in dust for they rarely spoke to each other, though one might imagine that time would pass quicker if there was someone to talk to, in their life they've talked enough. They were neither male nor female, the only difference one could notice at first glance was that one was taller and the other a bit shorter. Aef the taller one had a limp in its left leg its twin Eaf was the shorter of the two, but in their old age height no longer mattered. Aef and Eaf did not eat, drink or sleep they did nothing but walk and look for the falling men and women they called screamers. When they heard the pathetic scream they rushed, well, went as fast as their creaky old selves could carry them to the place where the noise came from. When they got there, time enough, they could blow a few sparks of hope up to the screamer, none but few ever reached for this last safety, most fell to the floor and their wasted mangled bodies had to be covered in dust and dissolve into the very old soils of the Undeunderearth Aef and Eaf were not obliged to bury these unwanted creatures, but as they did not desire to trip over the bodies of the silent screamers, they did so.
        Underunderearth was a grim place to be alive, perhaps not alive, thought that's what the two ancient figures called it, conscious, yes a grim place to be conscious. In a certain way they both deep in their soul wanted to do what the screamers were doing, though neither would admit it. Perhaps they would have done so in a week moment of before, but not now knowing that if you jump from hell, the only place you can land is just another hell. But Aef and Eaf knew they were waiting for something, they knew that their purpose was not solely confined to blowing devils hope at the naive falling screamers, within their long silent hearts they knew something was about to happen.
         Aef and Eaf, though their sight was no longer what it used to be, came to see a glorious speck of color in the near distance before them. They could not understand it for the only thing that they have been seeing for the past couple thousand years was death colored specks with perhaps a crumb of a red flame here and there, if the dear screamer happened to be on fire as he or she fell.
         "iiiitttsssssss a ....." Eaf tried to say with its dry and dusty mouth, but stopped midway because he grew tired.
         "turquoisssssssssssssse" Aef finished in the same dusty wind shaped voice " a turquoisssssssssssssse screeeeeeemer"
          The two exhausted after this conversation failed to notice that the falling body had hit the floor, but gently so. When they shook it off and started walking again with their long aching steps they came to see that no burial was necessary, the creature, whatever it was, was alive.
         The it was a her. She had bright green eyes that shone into the forever dusty gray fog, her lips were not dusty, her nose began to adjust to the stale smell of this new place. Her name was Ro, her sole was sweet and the two creatures before here came to sense that as soon as they were enveloped by the aura of her presence. They felt hunger which they had never felt before, they felt their wicked hearts begin to beat. They felt alive, and suddenly, for the first time in ages they did not feel tired. The two looked at each other and than the girl, they knew what the other was thinking. Thus it was decided the girl must be sacrificed for their better fortune.
         They ripped the girl apart before she could even speak a word. The eyes that once shone so brightly, were now dead and rolling on the uneven dusty ground of Underunderearth. They ate the whole of her except one beautiful green eye which they had lost and forgotten about. Now that they were well fed, they felt younger and the greed of the times before filled them both, they wanted more and more feasts like this one. They looked to the black heavens above the foggy grounds and started to scream.
        " Helloooo, sweet, sweet beings come down, come down..." screamed Aef in its newfound honeyed voice, that was so warm and sly that it would convince an iceberg to melt within its will.
        " Don't be scared of the fall, we will catch you, catch you..." screamed Eaf and gave Aef a sinister smile, which was return with the same, as they were twins indeed.
         Nothing happened, nothing special nor regular occurred, there were no green-eyed babes falling from their sky, no screamers either. At first they thought they were only to scream louder, but soon they realized that the screaming was as useless to them as it was to the helpless screamers. They sat and waited, they walked and waited, and with each step they became older and older, becoming the ancient fragile beings they truly were.

         When at one point they finally came to terms with the fact, that they were never to see another screamer again, had they been younger, they would have argued, their dusty voices were no use anymore. They stood in what could have been the middle of Underunderearth, though no one could tell you for sure, and the ground started shaking. They were too old for fear but knew something was amiss, they knew fate had a cruel surprise for them in store.  Suddenly the earth bellow them caved in, and they went falling, like the screamers. And knowing that from one hell you could only fall to the next which could only be worse they gave up and closed their eyes. They did not hold each other for comfort they did not see each other, the only thing that was watching them with a certain shine of revenge was the girls green eye.