Black Bag: A Short Story

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Heavy, that’s what you first feel. Your body is so, so heavy, and the air around is tight, like a compressing bulk that refused to let you fill your lungs with the satisfying feeling of breathing in. Tingling in your fingers make you realize that you’re just coming back into your body. “Satisfying feeling?” Hmm, you know, I don’t think I’ll breathe today because I don’t really feel like it. Humor me. They just came back from being dead! They should jerk with their first actual breath. Like, the beginning of this paragraph is stellar- just add a little animation. Or should I say- reanimation? HAHAHAHA… no? Okay, back to editing.
You… died?
No; “dying” was something humans did, and you weren’t human. Though you didn’t want to think of the details
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The worst part of this situation was that your hands were bare. Your hands were bare. You panic for a moment, but realize that being in the black bag meant that you wouldn’t be able to make skin contact with anyone. Sucking in quick shallow breaths to calm yourself down, you begin to think.
Had you been kidnapped? No, no, the last you remember, you were being pulled into a whirlpool underwater. Despite being able to breathe underwater, soon you felt air trying to force itself into your gills and you were forcibly changed back.
Sanji!
Sanji had grabbed you after Zoro had split the sea for you, and Law had tried to switch both of you out and…all of them, they all had tried to save you. Where were they?!
You swiftly sit up, and hear a discordant scream! (Maybe mention something about the texture of the bag itself- like a thick wrinkly plastic…) It’s a body bag? You were in a body bag! From all those movies you’ve watched, you work out that you’re in a morgue! Then…this must be that other world, the pocket world! You were all transported here! “She’s moving!” a (ADJECTIVE) voice cries out.
There was someone there! The voice is male, but other than that completely unrecognizable.
“Hey, help me outta this thing!” you try to scream out of the bag, rationalizing that it’d muffle your

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