When Darkeness Breathes...

IX Experience

Regained Memory:

I couldn't move. The numbness extended everywhere, but I could feel just the same. Cool, smooth fingers began running along my arm. Moving my eyes to try to see who was there. They were tall, much bigger than myself. A light skinned Being looking like it was made of old and weathered leather. It had large eyes and a film that seemed to coat the discs. Its skin was bumpy, not smooth like its fingers. I could see small holes, set in series that decorated its skin here and there. And slits that sat along its neck. The slits did not move, but the air around the slits looked funny. Like the asphalt on a hot day in summer, fuzzy and shimmering. It had no nose and no mouth. It continued running its hands along my other arm, next my legs. It ignored me, it seemed. Like I was not really there. It stopped its pursual and then reached down into my hip bone, applying pressure to the pelvis, it was uncomfortable. Almost painful when it stopped.

It walked away, going into a different place and I was left alone. There was a noise, like a dull humming or throbbing. The room was barren, the walls a metallic gray with some type of black film that seemed to cover it. It held an odd shimmer as well. Almost like the walls were breathing and the sound was the hiss as the air escaped.

I am not sure how long I was there. But when it returned, it had a long medal needle in its hands. I felt a deep burn in my stomach, seeing what it carried. It came back to my side, removing a portion of the think rubbery sheet that covered me. It was like a second skin. Using its fingers, it found the location on my hip once more, and it pressed, hard.

I felt the pain shoot through me, felt excruciating pressure as it applied more and more pressure, feeling like I was cracking in two! I screamed, over and over again, crying for relief, for reprieve! But none came.

I felt a crack, heard it move through my body as wave after wave of pain wracked through my small form. Felt burning in my chest and throat. Then there was blackness, darkness and reprieve...

I am not sure how long I was out, but when I came too, I could see that the Being was still there. My lower body was laying in a way that was distorted and twisted, at the moment, I could feel nothing. Numb. Sticking out of my skin, through the abdomen and hip was the large metal needle. It was making a pulsing sensation. This I could feel. I think this is what had made me go numb.

I could see fluid, a milky red color, that the needle was pulling up into it. It did not look like blood, it was something else. Suddenly, the needle was retracted and the pain consumed me once more! I screamed, pain and torture that I could not explain was all that there was, it was everything!!! Then all went dark once again...

The Next Morning:

I remember waking that morning, sleeping on the couch and feeling as if something was not right. The world seemed off, kind of surreal. I had this feeling of fear and I could not understand why?

I looked for my mom, and when I did not see her, I got up to find her. I took one step and everything within me from the waist down collapsed. I screamed out in pain, in fear and my mother came running. I could not walk, could barely move from the waist down. I was rushed to the ER.

I spent several weeks in Ortho. Somehow, while sleeping, I had managed to dislocate both of my hips. I required massive traction. It had to be adjusted daily, because of the extent of the swelling in my legs. This was lonely and I was scared.

I remember how confused everyone was, as to how this could have happened?

NOW I know...

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