Red Sam

Outscreaming These Lies

The satchel was on the black horse, so I decided to climb on him. Easier said than done. After a few tries, I managed to get on his back. He started to run, or whatever horses do, and I couldn't stop him. I held on for my life.

I looked out in front of me but everything was too dark. It suddenly got very cold, and that's when I realised that I was still in my robe. But that was the least of my worries. The sky began getting darker and darker until I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. I began to feel very tired after a few hours, and I dozed off to sleep on the back of the black horse.

I suddenly wake up to a tap on my shoulder. I look up, and I'm in a new world. I world that is so disturbing I don't think I could describe it. I'm surrounded by demons and beast and dragons... and wait... is that me? I squint and I see a little girl, sitting in a corner, crying, brused and beaten. Could she hear me? I call her name, my name.

"Leah! Leah! Can you hear me?"

I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was Sam.

"She can hear you, but she's too broken to look up."

Was this really me? She looks like she's around seven years old. I thought back to when I was seven years old, and I started to cry. I looked up and I was surrounded by fires. Fires so massive that I had to hold my breath. The fires were so tremendous that I could almost feel the smoke cloud around me, choking me to the point of tears.