I hear a delicate windchime surrounding me...and then a screech...and back to windchimes...I hear echos through the stone halls and corridors surrounding me. The blood rushes slowly but steadily thriugh my veins.
I look around and stand to my feet yet again. I look down at my arms and the cuts are gone. I stand straight and begin to walk...i hear a siren in the distance. I run to it and as I run my vision clouds. A surge of heat runs through my body. My vision clears and I'm on a busy new York street. I look around me and I see fire trucks and police in front of a burning apartment building. I hear screams and the shrill searing pain. Someone inside is burning alive. I look up at the apartment and I stare in awe of the flames as the rise and engulf the windows in heat and flame. A fire fighter walks up to me and asks
"Do you know what started the fire"
I snap out of my gaze of the fire and say
"Uh-...no.."
He walks away. I look back into the fire and I see a young woman. She's burnt. Beyond recognition. She screams in my direction.
I start to involuntarily walk forward to try and get a better glance at her. Vaguely I hear police screaming get back and come back.
Her screams were more shrill.
I looked up at her and next thing I knew she was gone. The screams stopped.
I closed my eyes...and next thing I knew, one final screech pierced my ears. A woman jumps from the 22 story and hits the ground directly in front of me. The screams are permanently silenced. I stare at her and think...My god she's dead....i zone out...next thing I knew I was sitting next to an ambulance with a light flashing in my eyes...
"SIR, are you okay..?"
I look at him and nod.
I look ahead of me and I see the woman's body lifeless on the ground. I get up and walk towards the bag that holds her body.
I finally get a foot within its distance. I knell down and look at it. Everything around me goes silent and stops moving.
I stare intently at the bag and my heart rate picks up. I reach for the bag...I unzip the bag to see if I can have an idea of what she looked like...i pry open the bag and look at her...so lifeless an array of layers of flesh burnt and scarred...i go to close the bag and turn around to walk back. I hear the bag unzip. I turn around in curiosity.
The woman is sitting up in the bag. Her head does a full turn around. She whispers "Nightmare".
A chill shoots down my spine.
I start to walk away and as I do, I hear the bag shuffle behind me. I look back and she's gone.
I walk back to the ambulance and go to sit down. I hear a screaming behind me that only gets closer. A woman, on fire runs at me. She gets close and then everything crashes again. I wake up in a jolt of fear. Screaming and wailing my arms.
Phoenix runs across the room. I look down at my arms and my cuts are gone.
I look around and lay back...it was just a nightmare.
