In a dark, dark day, as dark as the black night…
You open your eyes and what can you see? Everything’s nothing. Things around you don’t exist. It’s like if you’re blind. A blind being in a blackish world. So it makes no difference if you can’t see, because there’s nothing to watch.
But what surrounds you it’s colourful and you’re not blind. Slowly you begin to understand that. After the first impact, even if everything remains dark, you are able to recognise some shadows and forms. You’re starting to see and it’s not as dark as it seemed at the beginning.
Stopped there, minute after minute, you start gaining some confidence, while things around begin to appear. But where are you exactly? You have the perception that you’re in a corridor, a narrow one. If you stretch your arms you can touch both walls at the same time. So you touch them and you feel cold and rough. Big stones piled up like bricks. You look straight to the end of the corridor and you start seeing a light. A weak illumination, although it lets you see better the stones that surround you. Several of them are graved with words, in a coarse way. It looks like names and numbers, maybe a kind of a register of days or years.
You decide to start walking, step by step, barefooted, feeling the ground that leads you trough. Covered by a big piece of animal skin, you feel weak, but your will to know where are you and why, keeps you going. There are torches hanging on the walls but you have nothing to lighten them. Almost reaching the light at the end, only one more step…
…to be continued…
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Then finally you reach the light and feel a fresh breeze.
You’re no more in a closed place. Above you can see the sky and realize that is day. But the light does not reflect the day; the sun is completely stopped up by clouds as black as the look of a murderer. Before you, stand up what seems to be remains of a cloister, or its foundations. There are six pillar allied, you move the closest and see that the stone was well crafted but now is damaged, worn... You are now at the centre of the room and your eyes begin to flow their contours. In your right there is an opening, very similar to the one you just came out, but a little more broad. In side you can’t see anything in spite of this corridor do not seem as dark as the other one, perhaps by now you are unlighted by the sky. Then your eyes continue to search the room. In your front you don’t see anything special, nothing relevant to the rest of the room / cloister, only the thick walls of stone. Now look to your left, you see what seems to be a niche dug in the wall, them ... A shiver! Not a normal shiver, but one of those who makes chill the blood and your body paralysis. Only not stay paralyzed because you feel something behind, turn around.
Behind you, where before was only a dark corridor empty and black, is now a figure of human proportions. You are terrified, because you see that this shape seems to be slightly bright and you don’t understand how as it appeared without you had given therefore, no noise, no even a footstep (feet? You can not realize if the shadow touches on the floor!) like it was always there from the beginning. Noise, an alternated hitting, you feel another motion and move your look in the sky’s direction. Black birds, dozens of crows take flight from their cradle, like they were with fear and feeling that this place once secure and peaceful, is no more. You also feel that you’re longer as secure as before while looking for the crows, until suddenly… Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
You heard the most terrifying and horrific cry of your life!!
You take a look immediately to the place where the picture was. This seems closer to you and now you can distinguish clearly two points of an intense bright red. They are eyes! The creature looks you directly, and despite having the certainty that the cry was given by it, in his face (or at least what you think to be face) you do not realize the forms of a mouth. Your whole body shakes scared, a huge cold flow your body. Then, the strange shape begins to move away, but always turned to you, like it was levitating in the air. Depart itself, and the corridor start darkening again, and the creature to disappear until only one source of light at far.
What do you do? Fall back and retreat without ever discover what in fact you are doing here, what your purpose? Or step forward. Discovering what this creature was, what it wanted from you, or maybe, what do you want from it? Follow despite all your body can do is to run, flee in the opposite direction immediately? And now?
…to be continued…
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