'Till Death Do Us Part.

Chapter Two: The Oracle

I was falling, and my entire body had suddenly become a huge dead weight. My breathe came in uneven gasps and I hit the rocky floor in a heavy heap. The shock of the fall left me briefly paralyzed. 

It was dark, and I could feel the cool, rocky earth pressed against me. There was a small rabbit hole above me, revealing the afternoon sky. I felt like I had fell miles, but I knew I had been on the other side of that opening minutes before. I groaned at my own idiocy, trying to remember how I had fallen in a hole that I had just been gaping at moments ago. Again, I am a moron.

Slowly, my senses returned, and I stiffly tried grasping for purchase in the crusty soil. I squirmed against the tight rocks enclosing me, quickly reaching the exit from the darkened burrow. As I neared the top, the walls around me began to rumble in protest. My makeshift ladder failed, crumbling easily. I was once again flat on my back. The sunlight above me disappeared as the earth melted back together, leaving me in a small egg-shaped cocoon. I stared at the dark ceiling above me in disbelief. This had to be some freak accident.

"Shit," I breathed.

I was quickly becoming more aware of the lack of airflow in my new tomb. Waves of panic shook my cramped body, and I began to wish my deadly fate to come. My bravery faded, and I pressed my palms against my eyelids so hard that I saw faint white patches across them.

"Dearest Persephone, why don't you fight?"  

I pulled my hands away from my bleary eyes; the voice was near, yet I was alone. 

"Who's there?" 

My gaze lifted to the place were the hole had once been. They must be above me.

"Down here, I'm trapped!" 

My voice soaked into the miles of soil around me. There was another murmur that was barely audible through the dense earth and the longing for escape rushed through my veins like fire. 

I raked my nails through the dusty soil, digging against the claustrophobia that tightened around my lungs like a stretched rubber band. 

The dirt lightened and the sunlight poked through the small pockets of air trapped in the earth. I squinted against the sunlight as I broke back out of the earth, and everything in my vision went black.

 "Miss, are you okay?"

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