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Chapter 3 - Arrival : III

The words Gabe announced still resounded in my mind bouncing everywhere with no restrictions, as I stayed motionless, my mind conjuring an almost endless amount of adventures. After thinking for a good while and not hearing any more conversations, not even in hush whispers I began to open my eyes but found that I was unable, it felt as if my eyelids shifted from being flesh to some kind of iron curtain refusing to yield.

Lifting my hands up to my face but only moving them a few inches from my side, resulted in the same feeling, almost completely unresponsive and sluggish my hands never reaching their intended target. I tried to scream as my mind went into a panic, images of myself having collapsed on my kitchen floor spasming started to overwhelm me, I tried to cry but no tears would come, it felt like a millennium passed in this state, driving me near insanity. I was scared beyond belief, was I dead? Did I have a stroke? I asked these questions to myself hundreds of times and like clockwork every time I received no answer.

This all changed suddenly, the feeling of my body being moved unceremoniously roused me from my stupor and I felt my heart begin to pump irrationally as I felt fleshing walls that contorted randomly start to push me down what felt like a cramped corridor. I tried with all my might to resist, rationalizing that where ever I was being taken to would mean my downfall, but it didn't matter, I had no strength to fight back, so where I was being taken would be where I went.

The walls would push, then stop, push then stop, this cycle continued for hours like a well-oiled machine, at first I was terrified at what was happening, made all the worse because I still couldn't open my eyes. So to alleviate some of the fear that was constantly gnawing at me, I began to count, 1, 2, 3…

I counted well into the thousands only giving myself respite when the wall around me moved, this monotony finally came to a close when I felt something cold encircle my head making me involuntarily gasp filling my lungs with sweet succulent air. I breathed deeply and howled as loud as I could muster.

"WAAAAAAAAAAHHHH" Filled the room, and echoed far and wide.