The Bunker

this must be hell.

I don't know if anyone could properly explain what falling through what seems to be an unending dark abyss feels like. All I can say is that it feels like death. A long, slow, heart stopping death. 

However, I can tell you what it feels like to free fall into even darker freezing cold water. Wet. It feels wet, and ridiculously cold. When we hit the water, we didn't come to that floating standstill that looks really cool in movies. Nope. This water just kept pulling us down and sucking us into a dark vortex.

I couldn't make out much in the green murkiness of the water, but I could see dark shadows thrashing around close to me. I could also feel their panic joining mine and making it a whole lot worse.

My chest was burning and the strength was leaving my body as quickly as the panic was setting in. I could feel the darkness coming in like a tide teasing at the fringes of my consciousness. I didn't want to die, but the water that came flooding into my system once I couldn't hold my breathe any longer said otherwise. People always say that when you are drowning you shouldn't feel pain.

They're wrong. Very very wrong. It is painful as heck. There's a split second of relief when you first open your mouth to breathe in, because your brain is telling you that that's what it needs in order to survive, but then your whole body is burning and your head feels like it's about to explode. Then all of a sudden the pain is gone, and you sort of go limp, and the darkness that was waiting at the fringes comes rushing in like an overflowing dam and everything stops. It's almost peaceful.

People also say that when you die, your life flashes before your eyes and then a white light comes and calls you to heaven or hell, depending on what you believe. That is also not true. There was no camera reel of my life, which if I'm honest, was a relief. I didn't feel like reliving my failure of a life in my dying moments. There was no white light either, just that eternal darkness for the longest time possible.

Somehow I was aware that I had hit the bottom. Don't ask me how, I don't know. But a part of me sensed that my limp body had hit the bottom of the abyss. Not that it mattered, I was dead anyway. Again, don't ask me how I knew that I was dead. I just did.

Then all of a sudden I felt a different sort of burning sensation spread through my body starting from my chest. The sensation got stronger and pretty soon, it felt as if I was on fire. "This must be hell", I thought to myself. 

Light! Bright blinding light, like a large bonfire, surrounded the area near me. In that moment, I felt life come back to me and oxygen filled my lungs in one glorious burst of energy.

My eyes snapped open then, and I took a few calming breathes before daring to look around me. We were still underwater, but I was on fire. Bright blazing flames came from my entire body and the light radiated in waves bringing the waves around me to life. 

My dream! My dream came rushing back to me and I felt so shocked that for a moment I didn't notice the three other people standing underwater with me. When I did, I felt my heart stop with shock. Amy stood to my right, a solid gold statue with bright golden eyes. Quinn was reflecting every beam of light because he was a diamond man with crystal eyes that seemed to never end. And Dylan, oh my, was in a robe! Not a bath robe, because that would be ridiculous. Not that any of what had happened this tonight wasn't ridiculous at all. But it was one of those old fashioned robes like monks wore, complete with a cowl . It was green, a dark green, but it was glowing. An outer layer of green light emanating from him, pulsating in the water.

We stood there, the four of us, staring at each other, unsure what to do next. Then everything went black and we must have lost consciousness, because the next thing, I was waking up with a start in my bed own and totally drenched. 

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