Far From Earth, Close To Home (Completed)

Chapter 16: The Lie

I woke up on the ground, Halo was staring into the fire, and something as off about him. I got up, and my vision decided to just give up. I fell, and Halo looked over, and basically started crying, for what I could hear.

He hugged me tightly, and said something about life sucking and things.

I later gained full consciousness, and then I knew what was off.

His halo was fading. Certain parts of it looked grayish.

I sat up. "Be careful, I don't want you knocked out again." He said.

"Where are the rest of..." He looked at me with a look that I never thought he could give.

"Oh..." I said.

I didn't know what to say. We were still in The Inbetween. Gwen and Angel were gone, somehow... life sucked.

I wanted to go back. I don't want to be here anymore.

I sat and stared at the fire, and I noticed something. There was a flower...

A brilliant, yellow flower, not phased at all by the fire it's literally directly in.

I was still in the Darkened Realm. I'm being deceived.

I'm being lied to.

I got up, perfectly stable. "Where-What?" He asked in gibberish.

I shoved my hand in the heatless fire and tore out the flower.

I wonder what came to me to think that the flower was the cause of the reality.

But I was right.

Yes. It's a short chapter. I get it.

Don't give a sh-