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The best way I can describe what she did to me is : my body is now my own torture device. Every single moments I move, breath, blink, is pure agony, the clay exoskeleton I now harbor tears and burn my flesh, my insides are breaking apart and I can feel everything. What prevents me from trying to end it all is that I doubt I could succeed to do so and am afraid of how worse the punishement would be for those who did.
I regret going into that pit, I was told it was at some point an entryway to hell, to this I thought of the riches that could be hiding there and I went in like an idiot, obviously I got attacked by what dwells there and got lost running away. I ended up in some place where the hierachy of animals and humans was completely fliped, this place was at war with statues made of clay, the animals were hostile but the statues didn't seem so, so I tried to go where they lived in the hopes of finding any semblance of shelter before trying to get out.
This is how I met the creator and leader of the statues, she claimed to be a sculptor god trying to save the human spirits here from the tyranny of animals, as well as acting off and creepy her saying this didn't rub right with my beliefs, but frankly that was the least I was preocupied with, I needed a place to rest if I wanted to see the sun again. It seemed this place was only home to the dead and paranormal as I was seen as an anomaly by everyone around here, even by the leader who said she rarely saw live humans, though she was acting strange, at first she was boasting about how her creations are perfect and better than my body of flesh, then it turned into a proposition, she could turn me into one of her great creations, I didn't want to, despite this she always had this propositions given to me and everytime she was more and more persistent, then it came to a point where I couldn't protest against this anymore, I couldn't do anything, I was right inside her domain and I wasn't getting out now. The change felt horrible, my skin was forecfully shed out of me, my organs were removed and changed with something completely different as if a surgeon was playing with them. The hours I was standing still while she was sculpting my body was when I felt my mind going numb, I couldn't think at all, fighting the animals I was running away from before and acting like every other statues around me as if I couldn't fathom anything else to do, to her she made me into a perfect soldier and Idol, a superior being, obviously she knew nothing about the creations of God, only seeing them as flawed, and didn't think that none of them were mean't to be like her creations.
By some miracle at some point my mind came back, that was also when I started to feel the pain everywhere in my body, even if I wanted to I couldn't scream, despite this I still had enough sanity to know I had to get out. When going to another battle, I took the opportunity to flee, I ended up lost again but one of the few good things about my new body was that it could repell the yokais in this place so I was at least safe. I found the hole back to the surface by some miracle after marching without knowing the way back.
I was expecting people to be more terrified of me when I came, they just thought I came back with an odd armor and was stiff as a statue most of the time, they were more shocked I wasn't looking worse once they heard what happened to me, it was some time since I last saw myself in a mirror so when I did I was surprised how I looked mike I just had some armor on me, that sculptor did an unbelievable job for making me still look human but now all I do is standing motionless suffering because doing anything else makes the agony worse. People says they are still searching into this issue to find a way to turn me back, but in the meantime i serve as a tale to turn people off from going too far out of the village.
