Within the dark recesses if my broken mind, one thought alone stood out against the deafening silence. It was an odd cognition, one of pure ecstasy and pure terror. Perhaps it was not a thought, but a crack. A crack of the porcelain of my sanity. A growing fissure between my thoughts and my reality.
The laughter comes.
Others have noticed it too. The giggles at nothing. The smirk during pain. The screams at night. My body had become a conduit, telegraphing my thoughts even as they seeped through the crack. They were worried for my soul, though their attempts to save me were futile. I had been holding the crack closed for too long. I had resisted until my body ached at the strain in my mind.
And still the laughter comes.
It was a small thing, that shattered my concentration. A mere inconvenience, easily forgotten, were it not for the laughter. I was stopped by a girl, probably not past her tenth birthday, who asked for help finding a doctor. Her nose was bleeding, likely from a fall, and was being ignored by the strangers she pleaded fir help. Such things happen all the time, no need to get too worked up, but my rationality failed, my thoughts denied by the sheer magnitude of the laughter.
The laughter arrives.
I burst into hysterics, dancing around in a fit of joy. Why had I resisted for so long? Everything was funnier now, everything was a joke! I swept the girl into my arms and darted darted the physician. She screamed in shock, but relaxed quickly as my laughter became contagious. "Who are you?", she asked, as we arrived at our destination. Who am I? What a jovial question, I know who I am. But who I was, they are lost; lost from the mind, from the soul. All that remains are the memories the formed, warped as they were, by the lack of laughters intervention.
I reply, my tone possessing the wavering pitch of madman, "I am the fool who smiles at a funeral, who giggles at pain and laughs at death. I am the joker, who sees the silver lining of the darkest of clouds. I am the laughter that spread like a disease through people young and old."
I am the Jester.
