Greed

He bent down to pick up the strange package he found under the bus seat.

As he unwrapped it, a shudder ran through him.

Inside was a black, misshapen mass, as dark as evil itself.

A sick, irrational feeling came over him. He had to keep it, just for himself.

He hid it warily in his home, far from the eyes of others.

From then on, he changed. He became sullen, irascible, bad-tempered.

The kind person he once was vanished.

That evil thing seemed to absorb his goodness.

He never imagined that he had unwittingly encountered the incarnation of Greed, and it now possessed him completely.