Chapter 50: Helemoira

I felt as if I were floating on an endless sea, my body adrift on the tide. Though, when I reached below me, I felt nothingness.

Nothingness.

The word echoed through my skull as if it had some sort of meaning. My eyes fluttered open and I could see nothing in the darkness that I floated beneath. My body twisted as I tried to look around me, but there was nothing as far as I could see. It was a vast sea of emptiness and the sensation was disorientating.

I kicked about, trying to find a way out of the inky darkness but I only succeeded in exhausting myself.

"Hello," I tried to call out but my voice sounded far off and hollow.

"Ah, you're awake," a chilling voice finally answered. "So good of you to join us."

"Us?" I asked but the answer I received was the haunting feeling of so many hands snaking their way about my body. I tried to recoil from them, to get away, but they followed me. I felt them grab at my clothing and hair, pulling me in every direction.