The Monster

Arved stepped toward the massive oaken door.
He opened the small hatch and peered inside.
Nothing but blackness.

Suddenly a pair of flaming red eyes appeared.
"Are you enjoying this?"
"No."
"Liar.
You are a monster. Just admit, that, if you had the power, you would kill me.
All of us are living in constant fear.
When will your kind hit again, slaughtering our children, desecrating our wives ..."

An unexpected fervour made the Basilisk's eyes' blaze illuminate the cell.
The sight made the man shrink back.

"The worst insult in our world is: *HUMAN*", the being hissed

and died.