The land Inbetween

The Inbetween Prolog

"Mom!'

A cry for help can be heard from the other side of the house and rattles the walls with its desperateness. The mother wakes up tired and confused but the call for her continues. She gets out of bed slowly, grabbing the nightgown on the ground. She opens the door and becomes blinded by rays of light coming from the light in the hall that was left on.

She leaves the room, closing the door behind her quietly. She looks down at the hallway and slowly made her way down. The door opens with a loud creak that sent a chill down the spines of both the mother and the child. The mother looks at her child that is hiding underneath the blanket. The child pops his head out of the blanket and the mother is able to see, through the small amount of hall light behind her, that the child's eyes are red from tears.

She turns on the lights and walks over to her child The small child tries to speak but gets choked up. The mother gets on the bed and gently takes the blanket off the child's head. The boy hugs his mother. He continues to cry as his mother rubs his back.

She tries to quiet him down and slowly begins to rock him. " You're alright bud. Everything is alright now."

The boy stops crying and lets go of his mother. The mother starts to comb her son's hair with her hand.

" There, see everything is alright. Now, what made you so upset? Was it that nightmare again?"

The son nodded yes he tried once more to speak but his own fears blocked him. He covered his head with a blanket and pointed at the stars that are scattered across the ceiling.

" Was it the stars baby?"

Her child nodded. She then proceeded to stand on the child's bed and try to hit the ceiling,

" Bad stars, bad."

She got down after she hears her child laughter. They both looked at each other with a smile. The child fall back into bed as the mother tucks him in tightly.

" There now the stars won't be able to hit you."

The child giggled while the mother began to leave the room. The son asked right before the mother closed the door " Can you leave the night light on? "

The mother looked back with a comforting smile.

" Sure sweetie."

Besides the door was an outlet with a bear night light. She powers it on and then turned off the lights.

" Goodnight sweetie " She blew him a kiss.

" Goodnight mommy." He blew one right back.

The door closed and darkness consumed the room the only thing that gave the child vision was the small night light in the corner. The child closed his eyes hugging a stuffed dog. The boy closed his eyes and felt that he was in a peaceful free fall. He slowly went to sleep with a smile on his face. The night light in the room flickered on and off repeatedly like a candle in the wind. The child kept falling further and further into the never-ending peaceful free fall down a charcoal colored pit Inside, images of sheep and peaceful farmland pass by him on the way down.

He continued to fall looking at the images that filled his heart with joy. But as he fell further down the pit the images around him became disorder. The sheep and their soft white wool turned into rams with, instead of soft fur, sharp blades of glass created its coat. The meadows that we seemingly peaceful. Turned into a battlefield we're in the middle was a corps fire. The body's laid dead and skewered on fences around.

Then a bear came flying into sight in the dark abyss. Instead of a soft warming smile from the bear, it gave off a mischievous gin showing off its bloody, sharp teeth. The bear's arms began to reach out for the young child but it was being pushed away from the child by some force. But it proceeded to reach out to the child, it's armed like rubber bands, reaching out for the boy's feet. The child attempted to swim in the air to escape the bear's grasp. The bear continues to fall back, its body began to fade into the dark surroundings. A burst of maniacal laughter filled the air making the child cry as he was trying to escape. The child looked down the abyss frantically looking for an end to his free fall.