the razor-sharp pendulum was descending at an alarmingly rapid rate. it wouldn't be long before they all met their slow, painful doom. ❝ highest: #329 ❞
and then I fell suddenly calm, and lay smiling at the glittering death, as a child at some rare bauble
distance from pendulum to ground: four feet
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j u n g k o o k
jungkook waited for the familiar feeling of sleepiness to overtake him, as it had twice before. he waited for the slowly spreading numbness in his body, and then the heavy feeling on his eyelids. he waited for his train of thoughts to stutter to a stop, and for his world to go black.
but it never happened.
for thirty seconds, he waited. then one minute. then five. then ten.
nothing.
"hello?" he called, looking to either side of him to see if anyone else was still awake.
silence.
"is anyone else awake?" he called, hating how his hoarse voice echoed in the near-empty room.
absolute stillness.
he was utterly alone now.
on either side of him, his comrades slept, their breathing eerily soundless and their faces just as unsettlingly tranquil.
jungkook hated this. he hated that he was the one who had been chosen to die first. he hated that his companions had fallen asleep, leaving him alone in this terrible, deathly darkness. he hated that he was completely powerless, as he lay, tied to the board, forced to stare up at the pendulum that was inching closer, ever closer.
it glittered and shone, even in the darkness. it's blade was now only about three or four feet above his chest, and as he realized this, his stomach dropped.
he so desperately wanted this to be over, or for it all to be a dream. he so desperately wanted to escape this pain, this suffering, and this intolerable, never-ceasingly swinging death.
"please," he whimpered, to no one in particular, and he felt tears come to his eyes. "please, stop this. please."
but of course, no one answered. not the six others. not the pendulum. not the darkness.
and so jungkook waited, in that horrible, silent obscurity, staring up at the glittering blade as it made it's taunting, tantalizingly slow rounds across the room.
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