The Deathly Mortem

The deep ditch

'I KILLED HER! ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? CAN I NOW LEAVE?" Grey screams, even though he knows no one else is there to hear it. He throws away the throwing knifes and focusses on the corpse. She deserves a proper burial, Grey stands up and starts scouting the area. But the arena seemed smaller than it looked at first glance. It was about the size of 4 houses in a square, with big green walls all around the place. The walls reaching up into the sky high above the tallest trees, with no way over them.

Maybe I can find a shovel, or something to dig a hole with. Let's scout the area bush for bush, tree for tree, beginning with the side of the girl. I don't even know her name..

Grey starts jogging to the other side of the square, calm but concentrated. Looking over and under every plant he finds, even under the smallest rocks could be something.

There! I see something hanging on that tree branch! It's a little higher up, but I can reach!

Standing on the tip of his toes, stretching his whole body from his toes to the tip of his fingers. Just next to a big wide tree filled with green leaves and wild life. A small insect town living inside of the tree's wood. His fingers gliding over the soft leafs of the young tree, the smell of fresh apples adding to the overall ambiance. His fingers felt a disturbance in the nature, a metal blade almost cutting him. He grasps around the handle of the blade, a shovel got it!

Where should I bury her?

The sun shines in Grey his face, he looks up into the sky to look into the sun even though it hurts. Light burning his eyes he notices something, a red hologram the size of a car. The same one as the beginning screen he saw.

00:05:27 what does that mean? It looks like a timer, wait it IS a timer! It's counting down, what happens when the timer reaches zero? Iam just left questioning everything aren't I. Stuck in this stupid cycle of asking myself more and more questions. Left with no answers in this death arena!

Grey pulls the shovel out of the tree branches, small twigs breaking under the heavy weight of the metal.

This is crazy, Iam searching for a shovel to bury a woman I killed with throwing knifes. 00:04:56, it is getting on my nerves.

Grey starts digging a deel hole next to the tree, deeper and deeper time flying by.

Sweat, sweat and blood. I am tired but I can't let her down, that would be awful! The hole is deep enough I think, 00:02:36 I should hurry!

He drags the lifeless body into the pit, her bloody clothes sticking to Grey's hands. The dirt starts covering her as she slowly comes to rest.  Sweat dripping from Grey's face as he refreshes the bandage around his arm from cutting his name. Grey searches on the ground for twigs and sticks, making a cross on top of the grave.

A proper burial, she deserves this. Correction she deserves way better than this. 00:00:42 it is almost time, I should get in the middle of the walls so I can see everything better.

Grey runs through the arena to the middle while the clock is ticking by, the warm hot air blowing in his sweaty face. He jumps on the lowest branch of a wide tree in the middle. Quickly he jumps and climbs from branch to branch. Almost falling with each jump but still reaching just high enough.

00:00:04 just a few seconds left, I can see all the 4 walls from up here. 3... 2... 1... 0...
Another red hologram!