(THUD)
Ezekiel smacked into something and was knocked backwards. Confused, Ezekiel walked forwards again, but only to be stopped by that same something. Ezekiel tried to walk around it, but it was futile, it stretched far and wide preventing him from leaving. Ezekiel put his hand out and tried to feel what it was. It felt soft and solid at the same time. It felt like an invisible wall blocking his path. Ezekiel knew there was no escaping and that he had to face whatever was about to come head on.
Reluctantly, Ezekiel looked at the top of the steps and saw that as his target. There were too many steps for Ezekiel count, but he didn't focus on that and just focused on getting to the top, one step at a time.
A couple hundred steps up Ezekiel began thinking to himself, "who could possibly go through all this trouble to bring me here. It couldn't be my uncle, he doesn't have the money for this and if he did he'd spend it on gambling and booze. Maybe I'm just having a bad dream. No! This feels too real to be a dream or even a nightmare. My minds weak, my feet are aching, I'm tired and I'm continuing to put myself through all this hardship for what? Is there even a point to all this nonsense. I might as well give up. Everyone I've ever cared about is dead. So... So maybe I should join them, rather than roaming this hell alone. Struggling day after day to survive. No! I've struggled for too long!" Ezekiel thought to himself.
Ezekiel stopped walking and slowly leaned back, getting ready to end it all. Then a blue butterfly landed on his nose. Ezekiel could feel its delicate legs dance across Ezekiel's nose. It made Ezekiel smile, but moments later the butterfly flew away, so Ezekiel tried to chase after the butterfly, but he was ignorant of where he was going, and he fell backwards down the steps.
For a moment Ezekiel felt sad. Sad because he was about to die. Even though his life was nothing but hardship, small moments like that brought him joy and now he'd never be able to experience it again.
"I've never fallen to my death, but this is a very slow and painless fall." Ezekiel thought to himself.
But in fact, Ezekiel wasn't falling he was caught by the invisible wall and in truth he was still on the same step. For a strange reason Ezekiel felt a sense of relief that there was that invisible wall to save him.
Ezekiel stood up straight and with the boost of morale he began to climb the steps again. He was more than halfway there but didn't know how to feel about that because he didn't know whether it will be good or bad. Before he started walking up the steps he looked backwards and there was no butterfly, but he could still feel it in his heart.