I’ve fallen through the earth and landed someplace I cannot see. It is endlessly dark, so dark that I cannot tell whether my eyes are open or closed, though I’m fairly certain that they are open, I think. A few experimental blinks later and I can confirm the openness of my eyes. It is cold here, and I appear to be sitting on some kind of rock. My muscles are locked in place, I’m too scared, too confused to move. I decide to wait for my eyes to adjust to the dark.
I wait and wait, and after what feels like hours I’m still looking into the infinite dark, I still see nothing. By now I’ve started to shiver, and my body is covered in goose bumps. I start to believe that maybe I could die here, or maybe I have died already, but surely if I were …show more content…
I feel nothing and take a few more steps forward, becoming more confident in my stride. I don’t know where I’m going, but at least I’m going somewhere. I’m still walking forward when an ear splitting creaking noise forces me into a crouch, my hands covering my ears. It sounds like steel pipes scraping against each other, like an old mansion shifting under the pressure of standing for so many years, it sounds like these things but amplified an infinite number of times. The sound is coming from everywhere at once, I feel like it’s even coming from inside me, from a dark place I didn’t know existed until right now in this moment. It is never ending, it has sounded from the beginning of time and will continue long after I have perished and crumbled in my crouched position. Ages pass and I remain on the ground, hands covering my ears, eyes screwed shut, teeth grinding and body shivering. Then all at once, the noise ceases, like it’s been switched off. It is absolute in its absence, so much so that it’s hard to believe this place ever made a sound. As the seconds tick by, I begin to doubt myself; I feel the memories of the sound slipping out of my mind until I can no longer remember the quality of the sound, if there was
I wait and wait, and after what feels like hours I’m still looking into the infinite dark, I still see nothing. By now I’ve started to shiver, and my body is covered in goose bumps. I start to believe that maybe I could die here, or maybe I have died already, but surely if I were …show more content…
I feel nothing and take a few more steps forward, becoming more confident in my stride. I don’t know where I’m going, but at least I’m going somewhere. I’m still walking forward when an ear splitting creaking noise forces me into a crouch, my hands covering my ears. It sounds like steel pipes scraping against each other, like an old mansion shifting under the pressure of standing for so many years, it sounds like these things but amplified an infinite number of times. The sound is coming from everywhere at once, I feel like it’s even coming from inside me, from a dark place I didn’t know existed until right now in this moment. It is never ending, it has sounded from the beginning of time and will continue long after I have perished and crumbled in my crouched position. Ages pass and I remain on the ground, hands covering my ears, eyes screwed shut, teeth grinding and body shivering. Then all at once, the noise ceases, like it’s been switched off. It is absolute in its absence, so much so that it’s hard to believe this place ever made a sound. As the seconds tick by, I begin to doubt myself; I feel the memories of the sound slipping out of my mind until I can no longer remember the quality of the sound, if there was