Lament (Part two)

Darkness.

It was so dark.

I couldn't feel anything- no, I didn't want to feel anything. Never again.

They died.

Because of me.

Everyone.

I couldn't see anything- it was too dark.

Even so- I could see the faces of the dead… their grief… their anguish…

There was a white place in the middle of this darkness- a place I knew. I'd been there before.

I'd been here before.

I wanted to go there- I wanted to get away from this darkness.

But my feet didn't move. My body didn't move.

I just didn't want to move.

I wanted to be here.

I wanted to stay here.

I wanted to just fade.

Perhaps I wanted… death…

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Drip.

Drip! Drip!

Something was coming this way. Something big. Something dark.

Something terrible.

I'd seen it before.

I'd feared it before.

I'd avoided it before.