515 Chapter 515

My alarm scared the living crap out of me when it went off a few hours later. I fumbled for it, knocking my phone off of my nightstand, out of reach of my grappling fingers. I continued to reach for it as the obnoxious noise blared through my room until I realized that I could turn it off with my mindwhich I did. The silence was almost as deafening as the melody from my alarm.

I had been dreaming, but I couldn't remember exactly what it had been about. I tried to go back over it, to conjure the images in my mind, but they were slow coming. I just remembered the unsettling feeling of being underground, of being alive, but in a narrow opening, lying on my back, with dirt and tree roots millimeters from my face. I couldn't remember how it was I'd gotten there or anything else that happened before I found myself in the cold earth, but I did remember how uncomfortable it had been to think of the weight of all that ground dangling above me.