"Why are you doing this? What did that madman do to you?! This is not you, this CANNOT be you. ANSWER ME!!!“ Dirt continues to thud harshly, not an inch beyond my nose. I never realized how dark darkness could truly be and how suffocating. It pulls at my sanity.
"RAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUWGH!” I push at the friction-less surface surrounding me, scratching, shaking and shouting it into submission. It refuses. The sounds tearing themselves from me sound less and less human the deeper I know I am swallowed by earth.
I am going to die. I am going to die ALONE.
The thuds gradually quiet and slow.
“Please…don’t leave me…” I am nearly buried.
“Please…don’t leave me…like this…” A whisper through my mind: Forgive me Then silence. Blood burns down my throat and from my hands and nose.
And I cry.
I cry for myself and for the life I had only just begun. I cry for the mother I knew only from afar.
I cry for Theodore and his sacrifice for me, now in vain.
I cry for the future of the world around me, its fate now within the hands of a man more monstrous than the creatures at their gates.
Most of all I cry for Her. I cry until I drown within my tomb and darkness takes me at last.
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I am going to die. I am going to die ALONE.
The thuds gradually quiet and slow.
“Please…don’t leave me…” I am nearly buried.
“Please…don’t leave me…like this…” A whisper through my mind: Forgive me Then silence. Blood burns down my throat and from my hands and nose.
And I cry.
I cry for myself and for the life I had only just begun. I cry for the mother I knew only from afar.
I cry for Theodore and his sacrifice for me, now in vain.
I cry for the future of the world around me, its fate now within the hands of a man more monstrous than the creatures at their gates.
Most of all I cry for Her. I cry until I drown within my tomb and darkness takes me at last.
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I can feel the world moving around me. Without me. I am spinning within an ever expanding space that grows deeper, wider between me and every other living thing at a speed which light itself cannot penetrate. Questions tug faintly at the edges of consciousness. Where am I? Food…I need food. Time passes.
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Something scratches at my mind, curious and sweet.
It pulls me out of a haze I have been in for…I do not know how long. Suddenly, pain surges through me like a wave, higher and higher, increasing to intensities beyond what I can bear. The sweet thing screams within my mind. It tries to leave but I refuse it, clinging to my former invader, pulling it down into the darkness with me. Beyond its screams I can hear echoes of a voice filled with concern. Warmth fills my bones at its panicked tones. Through the pain some small part of me is happy that I am no longer alone.
It pulls me out of a haze I have been in for…I do not know how long. Suddenly, pain surges through me like a wave, higher and higher, increasing to intensities beyond what I can bear. The sweet thing screams within my mind. It tries to leave but I refuse it, clinging to my former invader, pulling it down into the darkness with me. Beyond its screams I can hear echoes of a voice filled with concern. Warmth fills my bones at its panicked tones. Through the pain some small part of me is happy that I am no longer alone.
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