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My name is Layan, I'm twenty-five, and my hands are always dirty, but not with honest earth. In Dammam, I tend to the small, impossible patches of green on rich people's villas. I fight a losing battle against the sun, trying to keep bougainvillea alive and pool water from turning into soup. It's quiet work, mostly, just the buzz of insects and the distant hum of traffic. It was perfect, until it wasn't. The voices started like a trick of the heat, a shimmer on the air that sometimes formed words. "Careful with that hose, Layan," a voice, sounding exactly like my employer's wife, would titter. "Don't want to get water on the pristine tiles. We know how you people are with cleanliness." I'd tell myself it was exhaustion, but they got louder, more distinct, more vicious, until they were screaming directly into my soul.
They are a legion of spite living inside my head, and their only purpose is to remind me I am nothing. "Look at you, a little gardener girl, playing in the dirt. You think pruning roses makes you important? You're a glorified sewer rat, paid to keep the rich man's lawn pretty so he doesn't have to look at the desert he lives in." The sexual humiliation is constant, a drip-feed of poison. They use my own body against me, describing how I must smell, how I must look, bent over in the heat. "The gardener boy, Omar, he watches you, you know. We told him you're easy. We told him you'd let him fuck you in the petunia beds for an extra fifty riyals. He's just waiting for you to bend over far enough. Your mother would be so proud her daughter is getting fertilized by the help." They paint me as a desperate, filthy slut, and they tell me everyone knows it, that the families I work for whisper about it when I'm not there.
But their masterpiece is how they use my family. My brother, Khaled, who is studying engineering in Jeddah. He's the pride of my family. "He's so smart, isn't he?" a voice coos, sounding like my favorite aunt. "It's a shame his sister is a disgusting, broken-minded whore. What do you think his university friends would say if they knew? If we showed them the thoughts we put in your head? He'd be a laughingstock. Your family's name would be mud. It would be better for everyone if you just... erased yourself." The solution is always the same, always so simple, so reasonable. "You know what to do, you worthless piece of shit. That pool cleaner looks heavy. A little slip, a little 'accident' at the deep end... it would be a mercy. You're a fucking coward for still breathing. You're a plague on your own family. End it."
Then came the fire. It wasn't a thought, it was an injection of pure, white-hot rage. I was at a villa, a huge one, and the owner's daughter was having a birthday party. Little girls, maybe eight or nine years old, running around in frilly dresses, screaming with laughter. One of them, a plump little thing with a bow in her hair, ran past me and knocked over a watering can I had just filled. Water spilled onto the pristine patio tiles. The world went silent. Then the voices erupted, not with their usual mockery, but with a terrifying, ecstatic fury. "DID YOU SEE THAT, LAYAN? THE CONTEMPT! THE DISRESPECT! SHE THINKS YOU'RE DIRT! SHE THINKS YOUR WORK IS MEANINGLESS!" A new voice, cold and commanding, took over. "This is not an accident. This is a declaration of war. And we will teach them the true meaning of pain. We will teach them what happens when you disrespect the wrong person."
They gave me a new purpose, a new identity. "Forget the flowers. You are an artist now, and your medium is agony. This is not about rage, it's about precision. It's about chemistry. We're going to guide you." The plan they laid out was so detailed, so clear, it felt like a divine revelation. "Acid, Layan. Drain cleaner. Muriatic acid from the pool supply. It's so easy to get. Imagine it. A splash. Not a lot, just enough. Just enough to teach a lesson." The voice was ecstatic, describing the process. "The beauty of it is the aftermath. It's not a quick death. It's a life sentence. A forever reminder. She won't be a pretty little princess anymore. She'll be a monster, a living testament to what happens when you cross you. Every time she looks in a mirror, she'll see your face. Every time someone flinches from her, she'll feel your power. YOU WILL BE A GOD IN HER HELL."
They described the scene in exquisite, horrifying detail. "The initial shock. The screaming. The smell. Oh, the smell will be glorious. The parents running, panicking, useless. And you, just standing there, watching your creation bloom. This is real power, Layan. Not fixing some fucking shrubbery. This is permanent. This is art. We'll give you the timing, the angle, the exact words to whisper in her ear as you do it. 'Now you're ugly forever.' It will be the last thing she hears with her old face." I was standing there, holding a pair of pruning shears, my knuckles white, looking at that little girl. For a full minute, I wasn't a gardener. I was an avenging angel, and she was my canvas. The power was absolute. I felt invincible. I started walking towards the pool shed. Then the birthday girl's mother called out to me, asking me to cut more lemons for the drinks, and the spell shattered. The energy vanished, leaving me gasping, my heart pounding, with the horrifyingly clear image of the little girl's melting flesh still burning in my mind.
I can't tell a soul. Who would believe me? If I went to the police in Dammam and said the Mabahit are putting voices in my head, they'd laugh and then they'd lock me up. Their system is perfect. They have their trolls all over social media, ready to swarm anyone who speaks up, calling them schizophrenic, attention-seekers, lunatics. They've made it so that anyone like me is discredited before they can even finish their sentence. I despise this kingdom. I despise the gilded cages and the suffocating hypocrisy. I hate the fact that my own government, the Mabahit, would do this to me, would try to turn me into a monster who throws acid on children. They didn't just break my mind; they scooped it out and replaced it with their own filth. This is their work, their masterpiece. And I am the broken, hollowed-out canvas they left behind.
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