Lost In Time (Druig)

Chapter 7: Long Into An Abyss

(Looking deep into the dark parts of your personality and mind)

The Amazon, 2023

It can be beautiful beneath the sea, but if you stay long enough, you will drown. 

It's exactly what I experienced so far, but instead the beautiful was replaced with horror when I started to wake up what felt like a dream. I know it wasn't one; it felt like a nightmare.

My heart is anywhere but the place where it should be, feeling my breathing all over the place as I'm hyperventilating at the moment. I can't control any of it! I just can't!

"Chloe, look at me." This familiar worried voice suddenly slipped into my ears, as I didn't realise I still had my eyes closed. When I did this, I can only feel the soft sand beneath me, but not recognizing this voice at first.

I can't think straight. Are we back in the Amazon yet?!

"Please." I heard this voice once again right beside me, only for me to notice this tone was a little panicking, as I immediately opened my eyes that were still in shock.

However, I calmed down immediately when I looked directly into his worried face, feeling myself seated on the beach where we mentally left this place for a while, but it really felt I stayed there for too long.

His two cold hands cupped my face, to help me calm down from this panic mode with what I just experienced, and right there and then I am met with two pair of light blue eyes, shining bright as the sun caused it so.

Druig could only look at me with concern, and he himself was also still out of breath from this whole experience just now. I know he experienced everything with me, sometimes stopping me to change the past, but this was also new to me.

At that point when I directly stared into his eyes, I feel even weirder than before, wondering if I'm really back in the Amazon.

"Druig?" I trembled his name carefully, as I find myself having a hard time to come to my senses; to not realize yet what just happened. Luckily I do recognize his clothes from the present day, which made my body eventually come to a rest.

"I am here." He said to me softly, which made me sigh in relief in no time, and immediately letting myself fall into his arms creating a hug I so desperately desired. Even if the hug felt good to me, it didn't stop my body from trembling all the way. 

Luckily Druig didn't even startle when I suddenly hugged him. The idea of me going back into his memories faded like it didn't had a purpose anymore. Well, not yet, because it was something else we found out instead.

Something unknowingly. Something horrifying if you ask me. 

However, I can't think straight about it yet because of him gently moving me back and forth to calm me down. I feel him holding me so tight I know he cares for me like he didn't care for anyone else in his lifetime.

Except for Makkari.

For a moment, I'm happy to be in his arms, as he isn't saying anything then comforting me with his touch. It's all I ever wanted right now. I feel save, and loved, but that only reminded me of something else worse. 

Eventually it's a moment that needs to be brought up by the both of us, making me suddenly remember the heartwearming moment between Ajak and Thena in Tenochtitlan, when she started to attack everyone because of her demons. 

Eventually she felt save, and loved, but it wasn't for all of them. 

Even tho I have a hard time composing myself, I slowly started to let go of Druig, as we're sitting opposit from one another on the beach. We're trying to calm down a bit, and it luckily helps because of being in each other's presence.