A Story A Day. Story 127 of 365: Unknown.

At 25, Egill had never set a foot outside his parents house. At the age when most of the people are looking for their first real job, he was trapped, without knowing, inside a cage. Egill's parents were extremely rich and extremely influential, but they were also part of a cult. And a pretty extreme one, in that aspect.

What made Egill parents' cult special was that they believed every individual had a mission from the day they were born, this mission could only be foretold by a chaman who had to be present at the moment of birth. Some were born to be doctors, some were born to be artists. It didn't matter they didn't have the talent needed for what they were supposed to do, they would need to work their way towards their destiny. When Egill was born, the chaman was there, as in all the births, however, he declined to tell his parents what he was supposed to do. He only told them not to let him outside of their home, to keep him close, for his own good, he told them the outside world would break him. And that was how, Egill had never seen anything outside the walls from his parents manor. When he would ask what was outside his parents would only tell him it was too dangerous, and there was nothing worth seeing anyway. Soon his curiosity fade away, as he felt comfortable with the life he had.

If Egill had been in the outside world, people would have considered him spoiled, stupid and childish. And above all irrational and temperamental. He was not a good person, but he had never know better. His parents were successful about keeping him away from the outside world, but it was almost impossible to prevent the outside world from getting in. One day they needed to leave for a week, and Egill had to stay alone at the house, however, it was impossible for him to stay completely alone, and their servant, whom they trusted, had been bedridden at the hospital for a week, and would be for a couple more. To their despair they needed to hire a new one, someone who would not mind being a babysitter of a 25-year-old. They ended up hiring a woman in her thirties who had worked in geriatric hospitals, she seemed nice and someone who could handle Egill's personality. However, what they didn't take into account was how Egill would see her. It was his first contact with the outside world, with a young woman, and all his impulses went crazy. He chased her down for the whole week, trying to court her, not knowing how, making unwanted advances just to get refused. It arrived to the point when she would hide away as much as she could, yet Egill always got what he wanted as she found out the day he snuck into her room. The night no one heard her screaming.