chapter twenty - stray from the road

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according to Healthline.com the average person can go approximately three weeks without food, and a high estimate of one without water. Along with the fact that the average person can only go forty eight hours without sleep before they start hallucinating and their bodily functions start to shut down. And at one hundred and sixty eight hours (about a week) sleep deprivation becomes critical and your bodily functions stop working completely, and you may experience forgetfulness, anxiety, hallucination, cognitive impairments, unstable moods, and may provoke heart attacks, stroke, type two diabetes, and high risk of mental illness.

I have to go off from the railroad. I know it will take longer but I know I can make it. If a slave catcher, much less a group of them, have found out about the Railroad, I was doomed if I stayed on. So I left the house thanking the woman, while also asking to take some food along, and I plunged into the forest. Follow the north star, but stray from the roads. I can keep going, not because my life might depend on it, but because my life did depend on it. Hope was all I had left, no people to help me, no houses to guard me. So on through the forest, I have my brain to help me, and the trees the guard me.

Days. Days. Weeks. Months. On and on it went. Rationing my food, but through the forest. Time after time after time. I was sick of time, it took to long. I wait for nobody, for nothing, I move and move and move. I barely ever slept at the slightest rustle in the grass I was wide awake. I don't care how long it takes me though I can make it. I won't wait for time, and I won't wait for rest. I can go and go and go and I will. make it. 

I think it is day one hundred and six. I can't remember the last time I slept. In fact I can barely remember anything at all, but that doesn't matter, I have to keep running my master is coming. I can't see him but he is there, I can taste it I KNOW I CAN. He is changing the weather to, all the time its hot then cold hot then cold I can never keep up. I think time is being too loud it's annoying... I think I'm going numb... it smells good... my left arm is gone... it's just gone... is my heart stabbing me? I think so... I think I'll lay down.. just for a liiiitle nap?...



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