Hysterics

“Who are you?”

He looked at her. “I am the God of Fire.”

“What?”
He just looked at her.

“The God of Fire.” She repeated in a mocking voice.

He didn’t look amused. “Don’t mock me.” Her right sleeve suddenly burst into flame.

She jumped and her head cracked against the window. She was screaming like a hysterical Beatles-fan, and just like that, the fire was gone.

“I wont ask again, little sister.” He said calmly.

She touched her burned sleeve like it was a dream, but the steaming fiber burnt her still-untouched skin, and she screamed again. “OH my God!!” She screamed. “What the fuck is this??”

“Calm down.” He said.

“Oh my fucking God!” She screamed. “What the fuck are you?”

He looked at her like she knew the answer.

“Where the fuck are you from? You just appeared there, and you don’t know shit! And now you’re starting fires and shit! What the fuck?” She struggled with the car’s door handle and burst out of the car. “Oh my God!”

Cars whizzed passed them like it was a perfectly normal day, and she paced back and forth like she needed to go to the toilet. Eventually she leaned against the car and drew her face heavenward again. “okay. Alright.” She took a deep breathe. “Calm down, Elise. Calm down.” She took out her cellphone and held it to her ear expectantly after dialing a number.

“Hello, mom?”

She hung up before she could get a reply. “Oh God, what the fuck am I supposed to say?”

“Elise, you neednt be worried.” He was behind her.

She screamed and jumped to the side. “How the fuck did you get there?”

He looked at her calmly. “Elise. I am the God of Fire. I am Zohl’Noush. You obviously haven’t seen anything like me or my kind. But I am the God of Fire, and I’m not from here. I’m lost, Elise, and I need help to get back home. All I need you to do for me is show me where or when I am, and I can find my own way back.”
They stared at each other for a while, and all she could think of was why she wasn’t still hysterical.

“I need to go home.” She said.

“Can you show me what I need to know from there?”

“No…” She hesitated. “I just…please, I just need to go home.”

“Elise.”

“Leave me alone!” She shouted at him, and his eyes glowed a slight green.