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Lilith looked down at her feet and screamed as she saw the vine wrapped around her feet and legs. She started struggling as violently as she could with half of her body numb in an attempt to escape from the plant. She grabbed on to the light pole as tightly as she could and hung on, refusing to let the plant take her. After a few more minutes of struggling, the vine released her legs and shrank back into the deep blackness that surrounded the small island of light. Lilith pulled herself into the center of the circle of light with her exhausted arms before collapsing and blacking out.
As she slowly came to, her hearing was the first to return. She heard voices around her, but couldn't make out what they were saying. Eventually, her head cleared enough for her to make out parts of a conversation.
"She was lucky..."
"...Shouldn't have saved her.....too much risk..."
"...Barely survived as it is...would have died without us..."
"We should have let her die."
As she listened to the argument, Lilith began to wonder why she couldn't see anything. It took quite awhile for her poison and exhaustion addled brain to process that she still had her eyes closed. It took her several attempts to force her eyes open, by which time the argument had ended and one of the people had left. When her eyes opened and focused, she saw that she was in a run-down hospital room. Only one other person was in the room, tending to a patient in a bed across the room. They were both little more than skin and bones, and their stomachs bulged as if they had tapeworms. The woman lying in the bed had odd-coloured blotches on her skin and appeared to be unconscious. Eventually, the man, evidently a doctor, turned around and approached Lilith's bed.
"I see you're finally awake. You almost died you know. What were you thinking, wandering off alone and without a light?" he asked as he sat in a chair beside the bed.
Lilith attempted to sit up, but thought better of it as she got light-headed. "I was chased out there, I didn't have a choice!" She turned her head towards the doctor as she spoke. "I was chased by a group of people into that road, they were going to kill me!" The reality that she had almost died twice finally sunk into her addled brain and she started to sob. "I...I wanna go...back home!"
The doctor quietly watched as she cried. She cried and sobbed until she had no tears left and lay staring at the ceiling with red and puffy eyes.
"What do you mean, 'home?'" he asked softly. "Your home settlement, or your home before all of this?" he waved his hand to indicate the room and the darkness outside of the windows.
"Before all of this!" Lilith said quietly. "I wasn't even here when...whatever it was, happened..."
The doctor looked at her quizzically. "What do you mean?"
Lilith quickly explained about the soccer game, getting hit in the head by the ball, and waking up in what was, to her and everyone else, a nightmare world.
"I...have to think about this," the man said as he stood up and walked out of sight. Lilith took it to mean that he was going to mark her as insane and put her away somewhere. She knew she sounded crazy and if it weren't for the fact that she had lived it, she wouldn't have believed it either. As she sighed and decided to try and go to sleep, a gleeful and disturbed voice sounded. It seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere at once.
"Ehehehe! You want out? You can't, my game with you has just begun!"
 Kargoroc · Fri Jul 02, 2010 @ 02:32pm · 0 Comments |
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