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A pain run through her brain. It was like a bee sting. Tiny, also painful. Her changing breath shows that she starting to wake up.
A girl opened her eyes. A burst of light made her blind, but it was just for a second.
"Ughā¦ my head!"
She touched her head, which felt sick and dizzy. It's like someone hit her with a stick on the back. That's what she thought, but if she's being honest, she never experiences or remembers something like that happened.
While looking around, she - Lumia Frost stood with trembling legs. Her breath was heavy. Her chest tightened.
"T-This isā¦ where?"
Surrounding her were red walls that reached to the sky. Distance between wall to wall is around 3 meters. Seems unreal as Lumia touched the wall. Her shoe tread hard into the floor, so hard until it produced a sound. Everything seems created by concrete, the floor and walls.
Lumia stepped back. Everything looks mysterious and makes little sense. She even doesn't remember what happened to her before she's in this situation.
Lumia wore black and white jacket with a gray skirt above the knee. A simple clothes by someone with no fashionable sense.
"This isā¦?"
A light blue wristwatch in her hand caught her views. Lumia is the type who never use wristwatch because it's uncomfortable. Especially, since she can just check time from the phone, she didn't get why people like to use them.
Lumia removes the watch and throws it to the floor. Next, she realized, something like a scar on her wrist can be seen. Red, but no pain. Maybe because it's been a while. She doesn't know.
"Hmmā¦"
Lumia just notices her phone and headphone is lying on the floor near where she collapsed. More question appeared in her mind as she took her goods.
Lumia puts her headphone around her neck like she always does. She checked the phone. The battery is okay, but no signal to be found. Other than games, she almost never used it to call anyone, so it didn't bother her that much.
She puts her phone into the jacket pocket.
"This place is weird. I wonder where should I go?"
From her stand, there's two paths that led somewhere. Left and right.
"Whatever. Doesn't matter, I guess."
Lumia started walking.
No food and drink. If she can get to the exit as soon as possible, that could save her from the uneasy feeling.
After wandering for a while, she found another path. Now, it becomes three ways.
"Ugh, don't tell me this is a maze?"
Lumia tried to act as calm as possible. But, seeing something tall circling her, she can't deny it anymore. She is trapped in a maze. She can't tell how complicated it is, but judging by the height, everything looks huge to her.
Lumia sighed. No matter how positive you are, if you wake up in a weird place with no one, anxious feeling will fill your head.
Lumia checked the wall again while raised her chin.
The wall is perhaps 20 meters tall. The surface of the wall itself is a problem. Even with a rope, she doesn't want to climb it. Fall and you die. Still, the blue sky can be viewed from her place.
If she could get in, it's not impossible to leave. Even still, it's true, what if something in the sky like helicopter drop Lumia on purpose inside the maze? That's just one possibility, but the fact that it can happen, or it already happened, caused her to doubt if she's able to leave.
Another thing about her is, Lumia sometime can have wild fantasy since she's always alone.
"ā¦?!"
Lumia tilted her head reflexively. It was small, but she heard a sound. Even if her mind trying to play a trick with her, standing still at one point is not the answer.
Without hesitant, Lumia picked the way and ran, struggling to find the source of the sound.
"Heā¦! Help!!"
Again, Lumia stopped her legs. She looked around. Only walls.
"Help! Someoneā¦ Please!!"
This time it was clear. A girl's voice asked for help.
There's too much wall around her. The sound is clear, but also hard to pinpoint where the voice come from with how complicated the building is. If it's an open place, at least she could see what lies in front of her. The maze makes her view too limited.
Lumia shrugged and then walked to the wall. "The voiceā¦ disappeared." She can't pick up anything anymore.
It's impossible to know what happened behind the wall. Bad sign is the only thing Lumia can think. She needs to get out from this place as fast as possible.
"Butā¦ how?!"
Lumia irritated. She looked at the phone again. Still nothing changed. When she is confused, the first thing she checks is the internet. Knowing she can't do anything is making her lost in thought.
"Hmmā¦?" Lumia turned her head.
Lumia caught another sound. Not as clear as before. Like a big stomp. Slowly getting closer and closer.
Lumia silently waiting. She doesn't know who, however if she runs there's a chance she will not come across with other people in the same situation as her. The most important thing right now is to find other people so she can dig the information about everything.
No, that's not true at all. This time for a reason, Lumia can sense the different atmosphere.
Her curiosity made her body unable to move. One of the reason is that the previous voice asked for help. Lumia waiting impatiently and not even a second, her brain could stop thinking.
Why? Because it was not the sound of human footsteps. Lumia realized that she listened a moment ago, but now it created a distinct echo. Like an elephant or rhino, the only word she can describe while listening is, it was massive.
Lumia shrugged. The thrill is intense. But something told her not to move and to witness what is in there.
She gulped as her sweat poured from her face.
From beyond the wall, a huge four fingered hand appeared. And every finger has the same size as the human head.
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Trying my best to write this. Not sure how is the grammar and spell.
Thanks for reading.