Brain and Heart

XIX: Hopeless II

The following events may be unsettling to some readers. (Fear, abuse, trafficking)

Reylann's POV:
I could hear again. The sound was getting drowned out, but I could hear.

"...Not...one."

"Immune...not?...over..."

"I...know...boy..."

People were here, but I couldn't make out what they were saying. My head hurt again, my thoughts were getting blacked out with a loud ringing noise in my head.

"AAAHHHH!" I tried to scream, but there was no air.

Tic Tic

I finally heard it now. The rhythmic sound of mechanical mechanics. The melody of robotic figures and movements. I tried to block it out, I tried to scream but the torture continued to go on. I had to endure it.

"...up?..."

"No..."

Their voices were like waves crashing over in an ocean while I'm trying to take a breath of oxygen. I couldn't feel my body, I couldn't feel my hands. My feet- my head.

I couldn't think. I couldn't-

Focus Reylann. Focus

Focus

Foc-

Am I still here? Maybe I was dead, or in the process of dying. Who am I again?

I can't remember.

I heard a different sound. Shrill screams. Loud sounds. Very loud sounds.

"Reylann!"

"Reylann! Reylann!"

Who was Reylann? I heard the sound of firm knocks. First, shaky and afraid. Then confident.

"Reylann!"

Then it shattered.

"AAH OUCH! OUCH!" The cries and screams loud enough to hear clearly.

I started to slowly feel cold. Then I could feel my body again... there was a pain running up myself.

Had I fallen?

"Come...! Now... Reylann." I couldn't focus on the words being said. I felt arms around me but I couldn't recognize them. "Reylann please!"

I tried to breathe- I'd forgotten how.

"Please..."

I was weak. No longer being able to function properly. I was hungry. I needed food; I needed something. I was thirsty, I was empty. And once again I was weak.

"I don't know what to do!" A cry I could fully hear.

I couldn't speak. I had no idea how. My thoughts were loud, but how could I relay them?

"I want to go home, Reylann."

My throat was fried, no sound could come out.

"What do I do?"

...

I could see again. The darkness coming back to me in flashes, but I could see.

I couldn't describe what I saw because it would change. Switch around and mess with my thoughts.

"Reylann..."

I saw her face now, but not clearly. I couldn't tell if her hair was dark brown or suddenly red. I couldn't tell if it was short or a trick of the light. What light? It was dark... sometimes.