Where The Stars Lie.

Chapter 4 (Aerelas P.OV)

It is so dark in here. So dark. 

Help me. Please

I stumbled my way into the dark area that I suddenly ended up showing up at. I wondered whether or not I actually need to keep walking. I honestly hope that someone helps me out of this pitch-black endless hole. 

I tried to remember how I got here. Then memories started to fill into my mind like someone pouring water into a cup. There was a woman, a very interesting woman who grabbed my attention by just looking at me. A woman who looked like a fairy with blond hair and blue eyes and fair skin. She looked so angelic in a room that was pitch black. She was the only one I can see. I couldn't even see myself.   The moment she told me to follow her, it's like all my senses left my body and I willingly followed her.  

I can't believe I did that. 

I'm now in this dark place and I can't see anything. I continued to walk for what seemed like ages and suddenly my head banged against a wall in front of me, that I couldn't see. I turned my head upwards and saw a light. I started to try to process where exactly am I? Things didn't make any sense and I ignored that bright light upwards and continued walking straight. I just kept on walking, until I heard a blood-curdling scream from behind me. 

I turned right around and looked for who could have possibly screamed and why could that person and then I saw someone, there not the same as the dark area around me but there just a ball of light, like I'm looking at their soul or something. Which was weird if he was a person. Maybe I don't even know how long I have been in this darkness. Then he bumped right into me and I went crashing into the floor. "What the fuck," the boy said to me. I looked at him and said, "I'm sorry man, it's completely dark in here how could you possibly be running"?! He looked at me and said 'Wait, how did you get here"? 

I stared at him in disbelief that we were two different people, trapped in the same area. "Well, I started, "A woman who looked so beautiful and magical told me to come with her so I did". Wait. His name. "Hey, I said. "What's your name, by the way, you never even told me". I motioned him to continue walking with me so he did.  

"Oh". The boy said My name is Thomas". "What about your name"? He asked me, my name is Aerela. I said. "Nice to meet you Aerela. Your name sounds weird btw, I never heard of a name like that". said, Thomas 

I looked at his face as we continued walking towards a soon to reach the destination. If there was any, it seemed as if we were walking down a long dark passageway and the only light in this long tunnel was me and Thomas. 

"So... I started since we have been walking side by side to each other, not really making any conversation. As of just how we got here and our names. I continued walking with Thomas and thought of a question to ask him, anything. It's a little nerve-wracking, that we are in the same place and we know how we got here, but don't really know exactly what it means. 

I looked at him and said, "I wonder what it means that we're here, could it mean that we just stumbled across the wrong place"? He looked at me and said "To be honest, I don't know what this could possibly mean. I was terrified before I got here, and it seemed as if you got here you were peaceful. So yeah man I don't know, I am scared and I just want to go back home". He looked like he wanted to cry. I looked at him and said, "maybe we're not meant to be here". I get the feeling something isn't right, especially when we have been walking for hours. 

When I heard a weird sound coming from behind me I think Thomas and I both heard the weird sound. We turned around and then we saw a blinding light. 

Oh no I thought. Thomas and I both looked at each other with pure fear in our eyes. I got the instinct to run and just continue. Thomas ran next to me, together it felt as if our souls were running next to each other, and the light was feeding off of the fear that we both were coming off of us like steam coming out of a pot full of water...

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 It seemed as if we ran for hours, then finally it was dark again and Thomas and I were the only lights in this long endless tunnel.  Thomas looked at me and asked "where are we"?! I gave him a look that I have been wanting to know the answer ever since I got here. We continued walking for a very long time. We haven't said much but this dreading thought of the possibility that were dead kept crossing my mind to the point where I just had to say it out loud. 

"Ugh, are we dead?" "As in dead, like actually dead like not coming back alive-soul-disappearing-into-the-heaven or hell kind of death, with no coming back. 

Thomas looked at me and started laughing. "Dead? Why would we be dead, what makes you think that that really doesn't make any sense?"

Suddenly, it was if God answered our prayers. Thomas and I looked ahead of us to realize that this sad, long, tunnel we were walking in which seemed like for hours actually had an end. 

We looked at each other and it seemed as if we thought the same thing. Freedom, finally!

We ran down the tunnel so fast that we didn't even notice that as we running, our feet were being lifted off of the ground as if we're being put somewhere else, upwards that is. 

Finally, when we reached the end of the tunnel, it started to turn into a different scenery. Thomas looked around as I did the same, the known tunnel that we were walking through for a long time, the tunnel walls started to turn into pinkish walls, the round walls turned flat like how houses are represented. I started to freak out a little bit and Thomas looked at the walls as if it was something that terrified him. 

I couldn't blame him, this was pretty freaky. The long end of the tunnel behind us continued to turn into walls. For about three minutes everything around us turned to pink walls. We both looked around and saw that there was furniture appearing out of thin hair around us. 

There was a chair and a couch to the far right of the "house" and then a woman out of nowhere appeared before us. 

Thomas and I looked at her and with a confused gaze. 

She continued to stare at us and then looked at me and Thomas differently. "Why are we here"? Who are you and what do you want?"

Thomas didn't say anything, he just looked at her as I did with her.  When we continued to stare at her time must have gone by pretty quickly because the woman in front of us started to age very quickly. 

Thomas and I stared in horror as the woman in front of us, her angelic face started to become wrinkly and eyebags started to appear. Her mouth started to wrinkle as well as her body, her clothes started to become lost on her until all she became was just a cloud of dust. 

I started to realize that we weren't gonna get out of this hell hole. Whatever it is, my fear for this place started to come crashing in on me and I couldn't help but cry and sob about it.  

Thomas looked at me and gave me and a hug and said: "It's okay, I am scared too". We were tired and so we both walked towards the couch and fell asleep.

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