The Holder of Tears

In any city, in any country, go to any school building you can get yourself to. When you reach the front desk, ask to see someone who calls herself "The Holder of Tears". The worker will stare at you for a long moment, eyes unblinking, and then take from a drawer a brass key.

The worker will hand you the key and instruct you to find any open door in the building, close the door, and then use the key to unlock it. Once you have done so, before you shall be a long winding staircase. Begin to climb down until the staircase is interrupted by a flood of water. If you can step through the water continue on, but if the water does not let you pass hurry as fast as you can back to the door and lock it immediately. The water will rise and follow you but do not let it catch you. If you do then you will forever feel a crushing force as if you were at the bottom of the ocean.

If you are able to pass through, continue on. You will soon be completely submerged in water but you will not feel the need to breathe. Once at the bottom of the staircase, you will find a locked door. This will be your last chance to turn back.

If you remain, use your key to unlock the door. If the door does not unlock then all hope is lost and you will be crushed by the water. If it does, open the door and step into the room.

This room is also filled with water and the walls in front, to the left, and to the right of you, will be long arched windows where you will see dark stormy clouds passing by even though you think you must be many feet underground.

In the center of the room, sitting on the floor, you'll see a young beautiful girl in a white dress, her dark hair billowing around her in the water. She has a gentle face but tears are streaming down her cheeks adding to the water. There is only one question that the girl will respond to: "Why do They long for this?" Say anything else and the girl will steal all the liquid from your body.

When you ask the above question, the girl's face will turn unimaginably terrifying and you will see images of all the most horrific acts that have caused the tears of the world. You will feel yourself begin to cry but you must not, for if you do, you will have to take the girl's place for all eternity.

These images will go on for what will seem like hours but you must stay strong all the while. If you can survive this, then the girl's face will turn gentle again and the windows will shatter, and all the water will begin to pour from them, taking the girl with it.

You will find yourself in an empty room with the deep longing to find the girl and save her from the hell she lives in. This feeling will haunt you for all your life but you will never be able to find her. The only thing she has left you is a bottle of her tears.

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