C82 Winters Crescendo

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Where am I? Mama! Papa! Auntie!

I screamed out into the darkness, utterly surrounded by the dark.

Mama! Papa!

I aimlessly ran forward. The sharp inhale and exhale of a girl in distress echoed in my ears with my heartbeat.

Auntie!

I cried out.

Somebody, anybody!

I was afraid and wanted dearly to see any familiar face I could call out to in this sudden darkness.

Mama- ah?

I stumbled as I attempted to stop, my chest still heaving in a panic. What stopped me was a sudden face coming from the dark.

Papa!

He stood in front of me, looking away as I slowly approached now.

Papa?

My little girl, won't you join us?

?

I was confused as he remained unmoving. I continued walking to his side and then to his front only to be tossed to the ground in fear.

Won't you join us?

His voice took a guttural tone now, wet and gurgling.

That's not-

The man that slowly knelt towards me wasn't Papa, but a beast that looked as if it morphed from him. A monstrosity of flesh and blood. Its head looked like that of the monster Papa and Sarah fought before.

Join us Ki-ki.

Another voice spoke out as a hand grabbed my shoulder from behind.

Sis?

Another.

Join us.

Auntie Sarah?!

Each figure slowly emerged from the darkness as if it were a strange black fluid whilst a strange sharp scent filled the air.

Join us. Join us. Join us. Are you not alone? Alone. Alone. Us- Join us- Join us-

My family members, the retainers of the family, the guards. A hoard of ghoulish clones of all who'd died engulfed me.

No! Nooo! Mama! Papa! Sis! Goro!-

My screams pierced out into the air, echoing off of the inky borders of reality. They were bloodcurdling screams no child should ever have to emit, the same I heard that night. And right now, in fear, in the face of what I thought was a horrifying death as hand after hand dragged me under the inky black floor of this dream.

Aunty- Bjorn- anybody!

GASP

I quickly sat up, the height of the tree roots around me just short enough to see over.

Ha- ha-

I gulped.

ha

I was panting heavily, my spine tingling and my heart racing from the nightmare I had just escaped.

"Where- How did I- ah."

It took a moment for the sound of flowing air and birds to remind me what exactly I was doing until late in the night.

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