Coming to Grips

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For once, I awoke in the same place. In the field, I had fallen asleep in, but somehow, it was still dark. It felt like an endless night. As I became aware of my surroundings, I felt something covering me. It was a large black leather jacket with some questionable red stains. I sat up and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. I don't really remember what happened. I had a faint memory that I thought couldn't be real. However, the jacket kind of sets that in stone. I carefully folded the jacket and set it down where I had laid it. I stood up and began walking from the way I had originally come. My mind pondered, questioning all that was real around me. How am I even alive? Am I supposed to be?

Before I knew it, I was back at the campfire where I had been before my walk in the woods. The others greeted me as I sat down on one of the leaned-over logs by the fire.

"Where'd you head off to?" Bill chuckled to himself.

"I don't really know, but it was nice, peaceful even," I replied

"You don't get much of that out here." The girl from the trial responded.

"So what's really happening, why am I here? Why are we here?" I asked puzzled.

"We've all been here for a while, I'm Meg, this is Bill" as she points to the man from the trial, "and this is Claudi and David."

Claudette gave me a shy wave.

"We don't know why we're here either, most of us just woke up one day and found ourselves in trial. It's some kind of twisted game put on by the entity."

"What's that?" I asked.

"It's some big angry thing in the sky!" Bill said waving his hands dramatically. Meg jokingly punches his shoulder.

"The entity runs the trials, it's that little voice you're probably hearing in your head, the survivor's instinct." She said.

I felt glad to know that I wasn't the only one hearing that voice, my mental state is already deteriorating as it is.

"Basically we do the gens, and get out. There's a void where the killers are held somewhere. At least they can't get to us here." She went on.

It made me think to myself, if there's a place for killers, how did I get there... or how did he get out? I chose not to talk about my experience, it felt wrong.

A loud rumbling came from the sky, a large black mass seemed to form and it came down with long tendrils. Before I knew it, everything faded to black.

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