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 ❞
i prayed—i wearied heaven with my prayer for its more speedy descent
distance between pendulum and ground: three feet
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j u n g k o o k
the speed of the pendulum seemed to have decreased, or perhaps it was just that time seemed to be passing agonizingly slowly. jungkook wasn't sure whether it had been hours since the others had fallen asleep, or days.
jungkook noted that the pendulum was a mere three feet above him, and sucked in an anxious breath. remember what namjoon said, he told himself, trying to calm his racing, desperately pounding heart. escape from the bonds as soon as the pendulum cuts through them.
but the mere thought of allowing the massive blade to get so close to him made his blood turn cold.
he wished that his six companions would wake up. he hadn't realized it before, but the feeling of having them with him had made the horrible, unpredictable experience of this prison less horrible and unpredictable, and he missed them wildly.
please wake up, he prayed, looking between taehyung and hoseok on either side of him. but of course, neither of them did. they were stuck, suspended in that same unnatural sleep.
jungkook almost wished that he could fall asleep as well. perhaps if he were asleep when he blade reached him, he wouldn't feel any pain.
it was the pain that scared him the most. and the feeling of waiting for such a great and terrible pain to come was almost more painful than he supposed the pain of the pendulum would be. it was like what his older brother had told him once at the doctor's office as he had been crying, after learning that he would have to get a shot.
"thinking about the pain only makes it worse," his brother had said to him, rubbing little soothing circles into his back as jungkook cried into the coarse fabric of the older boy's shirt. "just try not to think about it kookie."
wait. what?
my brother?
i have a brother?
ever since arriving in this wretched place, all of jungkook's memories seemed to have been erased. but now... for the first time... he seemed to be remembering something.
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i know it's another short chapter, but as i said, i'll be posting a lot more very soon!
also, this book got to #684 in mystery/thriller? like wtf? i thought this would rank like #1 in crappy books XD
HOW!?!?! how do good things happen to bad people lol
btw, for those of you who have been paying attention to the pendulum countdown thingy at the beginning of the chapter... well, i'll just say that next chapter things are getting real XD
