The Walkers

Chapter 14

Me and my big mouth. I wanted a warm place, full of sunshine and where I could relax, but this was not what I had in mind! How is this pleasant at all?! My feet are constantly moving to keep my afloat as the waves just rock me back and forth. The sun on its zenith is burning my skin and blinding my eyes. Yes, I am stranded in the middle of a body of water!

"Pfft!" This tastes horrible! Ugh. I am pretty sure this is the ocean now. Water tasted salty and its starting to make my eyes hurt. Return me to the emptiness! Please send me back to the darkness. Hello? Darkness? My old friend come embrace me.

There's nothing else to do. The situation is similar to the Great hallow, but here I can feel the coldness of the water, taste the saltiness that is making my tongue convulse in repulsion and my ears are both filled with liquid and listening to the seagulls that are squawking and waiting for me to perish. Wait. Are they seagulls? What are seagulls? I am not sure anymore. I don't want to have my cognition be overwritten by some dinosaur love child like those deer.

"Eek!" I felt that something passed by my feet. I am pretty sure that was a fish, but I'm not a free sample, you know. Don't call your bigger fishes to come take a bit or I will get angry, you know. My situation is direr than what I believed. I have no drinking water nor food. Why does this always happen to me?!

I have spent countless seconds in this body of saline liquid. I am tired of moving my legs to keep me from drowning. Why do I bother that much? I should just stop doing it and just let my body sink down like a barrel. Maybe if I drown I can get back to the emptiness and nothingness. That might be a good idea. Let's try that next.

"That was not a good idea." I sunk down onto the water, only to be propelled back up. I did see some scary things down there. I don't want to go down there. Please don't let me go down there. A shark would be a puppy compared to the denizens of this sea. I decided to mentally call this place The Dread Sea. Yup. It's a fitting name.

Since I cannot go down and it seems like I don't wear myself up. Weird. I must go forward! I will try to dog-paddle my way out of this mess. Right leg. Left leg. Right leg. Left leg. If only the sun was not so harsh! Is it eternal summer in here or what?! On a second thought, I don't want to discover what does the nightfall hide under its curtain. This sucks. Am I alone in here?! Is there someone out there?!

"Please help me!" Oh. That one was said out loud. I pretty much was thinking it. Now that I hear my voice, doesn't it sound a bit more low-pitched? Maybe the salt water made my throat hoarse or something. I should stop horsing around. See what I did there? I'm so lame.

As I was drifting away like a log in the sea, my ears finally picked something. It was a sound different than the cries of the ever-so-hungry seagulls. I turned around to search for the source of the noise. Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit. Swim. Swim away body. Swim! SWIM, DAMN IT?! 

"Holy..." In front of me was...