... or was I simply too tired to expel myself from this mental disorientation? But I knew I had to.
“Run Felicia, run!” the voice cried once again.
I ignored it.
Even if I had wanted to run, I couldn't. There simply wasn't enough strength in my body or mind to lead myself away from the seductive lure of It.
Stationed by the raw intensity It portrayed, all I wanted to do was to fade away. Couldn't I simply fall into the abyss of forever shadows and slowly die? Sink away? Perish? No one would care if I left.
It was like a curse, a cancer in my spirit, draining my very life force. Pulling me softly into It's embrace.
“There won't be a reason for living if reality was so cruel”, It filled my head with the truth. My heart pained in brief moments as it felt It's touch. It would take it all away wouldn't it, if I listened and obeyed?
“RUN!” wailed the voice.
Who calls me?
The voice was desperate, trying ever too hard to grasp my attention. A voice of neither male nor female, but pleading, none the less.
I found myself running.
Stride by stride my leg stretched, straining my already damaged knee from the heavy force my body exerted onto my thigh. Muscles and tendons churned at the stress, leaving my hips numb with overuse and constant strain.
I continued to run. Away from the dark.
As I searched once again for the voice of which willed me to run, my head boiled. A rushing heat causing my throat to rot and my eyes spin. This made me stumble, I glided through an endless doom sliding past me at a speed I never dreamt to see in my entire life.
Although everything was tar black – the sky, the ground, even the air, my surroundings became a faded grey blur as I sped through the scenery.
A mysterious gloom fell upon the place where the hunt commenced resulted an eerie overcast that hugged itself close around me, forcing me to freeze and cough blood out of my lungs. The blood smelt like a rotten piece of cloth, stinging my nose.
“I had to escape. I had to escape. I had to escape. I had to escape. I had to escape. I had to escape. I had to es...”
Abruptly before my eyes, a strange blur of orange light radiated in the distance. I got up from my awkward position and sprinted towards it as fast as I could, feeling the adreline run through my pumped veins.
The world began to spin violently as I carried myself near to the edge of insanity. In the blink of a second, I was running along a path.
Strange buildings ran across the streets alongside me, reflecting red light onto my parched skin, its' radiance piercing and deadly as I scanned the surroundings around me. The road was paved with asphalt, black insects or worms curled themselves among the dirt through the cement, like they were playing the game of hide and seek among each other.
“Ignore them. Ignore them. Ignore them. Ignore them. Ignore them. Ignore them. Ignore...”
I thought I could smell the tint of rotten flesh in the air. So unlike the blackness of reality, this was more taunting despite the more brilliant colours it projected.
Not because of the smell;
Not because of the red lights;
Not because of the stand still I had adapted since I saw...
A girl stood, not too far in front, her arms hung low at her sides, dilated pupils glazed at me. She was drenched, her white dress tinted yellow from the dirt and red from the blood; her hair a bird's nest in the non-existant waves of wind blowing it in every possible direction.
Behind her stood a man.
The smell of rotten flesh intensified...
He was dead... no... not dead... half alive... but dead.
They whispered to me without sound. A language I had not yet comprehend. In the semidarkness, I stretched my arm forward and pointed at him with my shaken index finger as though I was willing them to touch into my mind across space.
“If only you knew.”
“The chase begins...” he mouthed, silently.
An anonymous momentum charged towards me from behind, sending propellous shudders directly at my heart – a throbbing meat that thumped loudly in my chest. This suddenly triggered a familiar feeling at the back of my head, but I decided to dismiss it for I was simply too desperately engrossed in the blank scene displayed from the front.
The chase... What chase?
It was so, very close to me. A warm wave of energy brushed past my neck and I was suddenly warped with a deadly smoke seeping into my eye sockets...
I woke up.
