Voices From Beyond

Chapter 24

Everything is dark for a while, I think that maybe it will be like this forever. I'm simply just gone. I try to take comfort in the nothingness surrounding me, I think of myself as nothing too. I am just a part of the darkness, nothing matters anymore.

I don't feel at peace, I feel as if every organ and bone inside of me is tearing at me as if it's trying to break loose. I don't feel in control of myself, I helplessly tumble through the pitch black. My eyelids are heavy as my body calmly floats through the air, I'm growing tired as I feel myself drift into a sleep-like state.

When I open my eyes again, a bright light is blinding me from above. My entire body aches, I feel like I'm burning. I want to cry or scream but I can't move my mouth. I can't see much, just the sound of the light buzzing above me. I fall back into my trance.

The next time I regain consciousness, I feel a sharp stinging sensation all around me. It feels like numerous needles are puncturing my skin, I can't open my eyes. I will myself to move, I want to fight back against whatever is happening to me. Nothing happens. I fade away again.

I hear screaming around me, it's the voices of strangers I used to hear in my walls when I was alive after we had played the board. I know I'm trapped in the game now, I wonder if maybe I'll be reunited with my friends.

Maybe things will hurt like this forever. I don't see myself finding a way out of this. Sydney has probably taken her own life by now, just as Samuel had done after he killed Noah. I don't know if I even believe there was ever really a way to save us, maybe we were just doomed from the start.

The last time I open my eyes again, I feel the burning in my chest as my eyelids flick open. I unwillingly am pulled off of whatever hard surface I was laying on and I'm standing on my feet. My body feels weak, one slight breeze and I will crumble to millions of pieces. My legs carry me in a direction I'm unfamiliar with. The ground is hot against the soles of my bare feet, it's hard to see anything. My head is spinning and I feel dizzy, I don't have control of my body. The sound of a fire crackling sounds into my burning ears, I fight desperately to keep my eyes open. Torturous screams of terror bounce through the flames from a distance, there's more people here than I thought. I stumble forward, I don't think this will ever end.

Hands are placed on my back as I feel something hovering over me, I'm all too familiar with the frail bony fingers that wrap around my shoulders. I know instantly that it's the demon that killed me and all of my close friends. I unwillingly look up into the eyes of death itself and I know that this is only the start of my miserable existence. The life that I once knew no longer exists.