Chapter 14

Chapter 14

 

The light was finally gone. There was nothing but silence left in its place. More silence than Chloe would have liked considering she was in pitch black silence and alone.

She had never felt this alone in her life and it beckoned panic and unreachable tears. To be so far away from him terrified her and caused her a deep pain that was so all consuming that it was magnificent at the same time.

     He was now her reason for living and she couldn’t bear not knowing where he was while she was lying there trapped in the black and silence.

     Chloe was determined to pull herself from the darkness so she could once again be with him. She made her mind focus on the only thing that she could her own body. Remembering and trying to bring each digit into an image that she could work with.

     It was like making that image visible in her own mind was so important and she began with the smallest of details. The round curve of her nail, the pink wrinkles of her prints in her soft skin even the high arch of her foot.

She began to see the image in her mind and at that precise moment she could feel her own toes moving ever so slightly. Holding on to that small ounce of growing hope Chloe began to concentrate on larger parts of her body. Legs. Abdomen. Arms. Chest. The beating of her heart in her chest.

With the first beat of her heart Chloe immediately sensed something just beyond the edge of her minds boundary. It seemed to be testing that boundary for something. Chloe concentrated her mind on that spot so she could get a better feel for it. A slender tentacle like object was inching its way around the barrier of her mind and it seemed so welcoming to Chloe.

Chloe pulled herself to her feet and inched her way towards the tentacle. Something about it was calling to her. An overwhelming need to touch the tentacle overcame all her other senses and she began to run towards it.

Fear quickly overcame her earlier urge and Chloe sprinted across the darkness towards it. Like a bad dream the faster she ran and the harder she pushed resulted in the distance growing instead of shrinking.

Stopping as fast as she began Chloe stood trying to wrap her mind around the test she was obviously put into. This reminded her of a day at the circus in the fun house surrounded by all the mirrors.

Her lips uplifted into a clever smile as Chloe outstretched her hand towards the tentacle. Now only inches away from the strange object Chloe began to feel an overwhelming joy emanate from the strange being in front of her. It was so welcoming, so lovely and welcoming that it pulled Chloe the final distance towards it.

As the two were closing the distance a bright blue flash of light threw Chloe back and pulsed around the top of her like a large dome sealing her inside and the tentacle outside. At that same moment of impact Chloe and the tentacle began to scream out in a blood curdling cry finally understanding the reality of the prison.

Chloe through her hands to her head and screamed out in pain. She screamed out for the love that she would never have the chance to embrace. She screamed out for the love that was stolen from her.

Chloe screamed and her voice began to grow in pitch and she felt the pressure and a new stabbing pain within her own skull. She embraced the self-created pain as it was much better than the empty hole in her chest.

     With her hands clutched in tight, white fists Chloe threw her head back and raised the pitch of her scream so much that she felt as if she was howling out instead of screaming and she loved that idea so much better.

     Then she felt the air being pulled from her lungs as she fell backwards into the darkness reaching out in terror as she went.