17 | how the tables have turned

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Gabriel Agreste
The room was dark, and cold. So empty and lifeless that he could hear his own heartbeat. He gasped for breath, choking from the lack of air. He tried desperately to remember what had happened, but his mind was blank.

He couldn't even remember his own name.

He squirmed a little, then realized he was being held by... something. Whatever it was made it increasingly difficult to move, and breathe for that matter.

"You're awake," said a female voice from somewhere in the darkness. He squinted, and could just barely make out the outline of a long cloak-like figure, right around where the sound came from.

"About time," said another, a male this time.

Gabriel jerked right and left, but it was no use- whatever was holding him had no intention of letting go.

"There's no point trying," the male said. "My sentimoster is designed to have impenetrable strength against evil- and it deems you worthy."

Gabriel gave up, hanging his head. "What do you want from me?" He asked quietly.

"Nothing actually- other than your hospitality," said the female.

"You can have whatever you want. My house, my job- but not my son."

"We figured," the female said, annoyed. "You don't know anything because we wiped your memory, so there's really no reason to keep you down here."

"So what do you want from me?" He said again, narrowing his eyes towards the shadows.

The shadows were silent, and he wondered if they were still deciding his fate. He tried to remember why he was there, but he could barely remember anything. He remembered he had a son, a house and a job, but he couldn't remember what job he had, where his house was, his son's name, anything.

"What are you going to do with me?"

His captors were silent once more, and this time the silence was penetrating, clutching at him harder than the sharp fingers wrapped around his body.

He felt their presence as they approached him from behind, and his unease grew into fear as they came closer and closer still. They were so close he could feel their breath creeping down his neck with each breath he took.

"Goodbye for now Gabriel."

The next thing he knew he was sinking into the darkness, his vision blurring and his eyes watering as he sank deeper and deeper into the abyss.

Goodbye.

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