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Silence Whisper Echo Scream

Silence

Whisper

Echo

Scream

I froze, startled by the words.

Those were not my words.

Those were not my thoughts.

A deep dense of dread crept into my mind as I realised something.

It was all over. They had won.

And I...

I had been betrayed.

Silence

I ignored the foriegn thought, now conveyed as a command, letting out a sob. I fell onto my knees, crying as I started to feel detached from everything that was happening. As if I was in a dream, but with a more hollow sensation. 

Grief?

Exhaustion?

Hunger?

I'd experienced much of those recently.

My mind moved slowly, almost grudgingly, as if it didn't care about how much time I had left.

I threw back my head, laughing. It was a harsh laugh, full of black humor. 

Whisper

"I'm going to die." I muttered, then started to laugh again at how wrong I was.

I wasn't going to die. My body would live on. Me, my concious thoughts, on the other hand, would be gone.

My thoughts went round in circles, wandering aimlessly. Purposeless.

I skimmed through memories and smiled as I made a connection.

No it wasn't grief, exhaustion or hunger. Those were painful.

This was a complete lack of feeling entirely.

Echo

I could hear them coming, their footsteps reverberating down the tunnel. They'd be worried. I grimaced in a poor imitation of a smile. First Torus would come.  I could see him there, kneeling down to my level, anxious eyes searching my face for some hint of what had happened.

"Delta?" He would ask.

No...He asked. I realised that this was not mere imagination. It was real.

I met his eyes, my vision blurring from tears.

"Run." 

I only noticed then that he had been holding my hand. His grip tightened before he let go and stood up then ran  in the opposite direction.

Scream