Crumbling Dreams Part One

The Reunion

"Chloe?! Why are you there!" Alice pissed was fearing that Chloe was invited to that "party".

"Why are you there? I am invited by the guy that-" Alice interrupted Chloe.

"Has little time left or something?" Alice swiftly replied.

Chloe was stunned.

"How did you-"

"I got the invite too. Let us get going."

Chloe follows Alice silently.

"So why were you screaming earlier?" Alice asked mockingly.

"A sort of deer was following me, but it was, off, like he had taken crack or something... That shit scared the hell out of me."

"Keep that hell inside you because it's getting colder and darker." Alice laughs with Chloe, forgetting for a moment what happened years ago.

"Glad that you are here," Chloe says with a warm smile.

To which Alice pressed her lips and nodded.

They walk until they find an old building.

"What's that?" Alice asked.

"Looks like a... warehouse! Look!" Chloe points at the structure.

The building is constituted of tiny square windows, with concrete walls and metal sharp roof tiles. The warehouse is groaning. It is aged.

"Why would they want to organize a party in here?" Alice leading the way.

They come across another building near the warehouse. A rusty water tower, surrounded by a former building, with only part of brick walls and holes that resemble windows, covered with wooden planks, remains.

"This place is rotting!" Chloe states.

"At least we have landmarks for our way back" Alice replied, making Chloe notice that there are no trails left, only leaves and mud.

They notice a small structure.

"And this is?" Chloe asked pointing at another building.

"I am not sure... Are those wagons?"

"Let's check."

They go towards the large building, and they notice rails.

"Is that..." Chloe worryingly asked.

Both look at each other. Alice nods. They knew. They knew what kind of structure that was.

"The Morgan mine... Also known as, The Perishing Shaft." Alice states.

"Isn't where like... hundreds of miners got stuck beneath the mine and-"

"Yes. Yes indeed... Let us keep going." Alice interrupted Chloe.

"Okay..." Chloe stutters, visibly scared.

Both look at the long wooden shelter hallway of the mine, noticing the blocked entrance with enormous boulders of the mine. Chills running down their spines. Alice hears muffled screams and coughing coming from down the mine. Chloe snaps her out of it.

"Alice? Alice! Come on let us go!" Chloe yaps.

"Huh...? Erm, yes let us go..."

"Did you see something? You were in a kind of trans." Chloe says while looking behind her.

"No... I am not sure... That is impossible" Alice confusedly says with a blue voice.

"What? What happened? Tell me already!" Chloe frantically looked around before locking on Alice's face.