I closed my eyes to be claimed by a never ending darkness. It was but moments yet it felt like a millennia has passed; all what I came to cherish have perished and faded away like the petals of a flower withering away. All what I came to know disappeared from my mind, memory after another; as it played in front of me for one last time.
I opened my eyes once again; "who am I?" "where am I?" questions that came to my mind at the moment as panic withtook me. Frustration building up inside of me as adrenaline races through my veins. It was but moments of panic until I could see the people around me looking at me with a very concerned gaze. I could tell something was amiss as they all were naked in a cave. There was one big campfire in the middle, and those people I assumed to be either a movie cast team gathered around it. It was strange, very bizarre, that the acting of these actors was very convincing, I almost believed they were real cavemen.
Questions like "who am I?" lost its value very quickly as the one true instinct that has been rooted deep inside every human has taken over very rapidly that is the instinct of survival. I stood up, tried to ask people around the campfire questions like "where am I?" and "who are you?" in which they replied to me in a weird language I never heard before, it sounded like "Kushuq paduq". But I could never pronounce something like that. I wanted to tell them that I am not joking and I really needed to know where that is, but then it struck me to look outside the cave.
As I looked through the caves entrance, there were no cameras, no professional movie settings nor directors. The only thing awaited me outside of the cave was a ravine and never ending plaines with small mountains in the distance. As I looked at the crystal clear water I had the urge to drink as I felt like I was drying from thirst. I did not bother checking my surroundings as this way the first time I drank from a ravine, it was usually bottled water.
I climbed down the cliff and started drinking, admiring the wondrous blessing of water, but as soon as I started admiring, I heard the cavemen scream at me as if trying to warn me. I lifted my head up but it was already too late, as I looked in terror at the huge teeth approaching my with a high velocity. I did what everyone would do, extended my hand forward as to defend myself from this predator. But my instinct could not have been more wrong, as the crocodilian broke my fragile hand bones with just the impact, and its teeth bit my neck and my cheeks piercing my skin and knocking me off balance. "I am scared!" "I don't want to die!" I tell myself as I put up a final struggle with my free left hand, trying to hit huge crocodile in the eyes over and over again. I tried to resist as he continued dragging me further into the ravine and sinking me, until I finally gave in and suffocated. Darkness overtook me as I closed my eyes...
All my memories faded away, I feel scared, I feel paranoid, yet here I am opening my eyes. I don't remember what happened, but I can see people around me in which I assume are actors acting like cavemen. I am scared, I don't know where I am... I curled up into a circle afraid of everything, very conscious to every sound. The time passes out very slowly and the actors didn't take any break for hours. They ate raw meat and I even saw someone beat another to death and no medics have entered... They might not be actors... Where am I? I am scared! I start crying silently as not to garner any attention. My sobs went unnoticed for the longest time, I am hungry, I am cold, I am tired, I am numb, I am scared...
Before I knew it, I fell asleep on the hard ground and felt a sense of loss, as I felt like I am fading away, every memory I had started to fade away as did my senses of myself... Everything returned to darkness.
I opened my eyes looking at what I assumed to be actors...
(To be continued)