Entranced

Chapter 2 Burning

Once my sister was out of sight, I carefully walked over to the light. My shadow moved behind me, creeping along the floor like a ghost. Every sound, the shifting of my clothes, the hiss of my breath, threatened to give me away. I looked up at the wall to see the source of light, right in front of my face. The light was blinding so close up. Yet, I couldn't look away. It was like the light was hypnotizing, but I was able to think all of this while my eyes were trained on the light. I felt like a moth to a porch light.

Without thinking, I reached out with both hands and brushed my fingertips against the light. Immediately, I was frozen into place. The world spun around me. Well, I thought. This would be a stupid way to die. I could almost see my gravestone: Grace Woods, death by wall. My hands stung. A burning feeling coursed through my fingers, rushing through my veins to the rest of my body. It trickled through me like adrenaline, racing in my bloodstream. By the time it reached my shoulders, I knew that I had never felt so powerful and so vulnerable ever before in my life.

Then the burning reached my head, and I gasped for breath. I had just enough time to choke out my sister's name. I felt like I was being tossed into the air, and right when I would have hit the ground I was dropped into darkness. It was an amazing change from the light that had burned me seconds earlier.