Silent Heaven

Captured

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Quotes and meanings below.

"Speaking aloud"

'Speaking telepathically'

Subconscious thoughts, deep in the mind and cannot be heard by others at all.

Chapter 28: Captured

The next morning when I woke up, it already seemed as though things were back to the way they usually were. Waking up alone in the room, like pretty much every morning.

Every morning I can't help but worry about Pyramid, along with all the other executioners. Who knows what shape he will return to the room in today, if he is even able to come back to me today.

Uncovering myself, I am quickly reminded of my current clothing situation, still completely nude. Climbing off the bed, I walk over to the stand the food is sitting on, underneath it is a drawer that I filled with clothes from some of the abandoned clothing stores in town. Underneath that drawer is another full of drawing supplies and sketch books, along with some books that I have already read a number of times.

Picking out some underwear, a hoodie and sweatpants, I put them on, feeling very comfortable in them. The room always tends to be chilly, so the drawer is mostly full of warm clothes.

Once finished I begin eating breakfast and reading, restarting one of the books I have had for a few years.

The book is about a girl who lives in a village, the people in the village have always feared going beyond certain boundaries away from the village. The villagers have been raised on horrible stories about those who have gone past those boundaries and never returned. Some stories also describe a creature that lurks beyond those boundaries that snatches up anyone who ventures too far from the village. The girl was raised to fear what lies beyond those limits, but due to the village running out of food and game to hunt within their safe limits the girl's mother and siblings begin to starve. The girl believes there a plentiful amount of food beyond those limits, more animals to hunt and more fish to catch. She does not believe the stories the villagers have lived to fear about what is beyond those limits, and that her family means more to her than some legend. She sneaks off one night and goes beyond the limits, coming to find that her speculations about there being plentiful food is true. She gathers as much vegetation and food as she can for the village, by the time everyone in the village woke up, she had brought enough food for everyone. Everyone was happy for some time, even daring enough to go past the limits themselves to get more food when they got low. Everything quickly turned sour for the village once everyone began to get ill, the more that people ate from the food beyond those limits, the quicker they died. The village quickly turned against the girl for bringing them tainted food and that she should have never disobeyed the rules. The girl's family ended up dying from the tainted food, along with most of the village. Soon the girl was banished from the village and forced to live on her own beyond the limits, she never ended up becoming sick from any of the tainted food. Living on her own out in the wilderness she soon came face to face with the creature from the village's lore, a large, bloody black stag with no skin on it's head. The stag spoke to the girl, telling her that she never got sick from the food because she was the one who stole from the stag, and her consequence for that is to live the rest of her life alone and to die alone.

I'm not sure if the stag represents death or plague, but the book keeps me distracted from worrying all day.

Hours pass while I reread the book, laying sprawled out on the giant, comfortable bed. Soon I start to hear something quiet, at first I didn't realize the sound was real until it began to get louder.