Her vision focused onto an all too familiar sight. A snowy hilltop that could have been anywhere, and yet it seemed that she had seen it before. Or was it that it combined aspects from all of the places she had lived throughout the years?
No, not again. Please not again.
She was standing alone, but there were families all around her, enjoying the beautiful winter day. Against her will, her body began to move along the same path it did every time she visited this place. She knew where it led.
She had lived this over and over again until every little detail was burned into her mind, and yet she couldn’t escape the terrifying sense of foreboding danger that seemed to saturate the air around her. She wrapped her arms tightly around her waist, trying to stave off the icy chill that was spreading throughout her.
Up ahead, two black figures were standing like statues in front of the tall pines that marked the edge of a dense forest. Their faces were hidden from the sun, but she knew who they were. Even her first time here, she had known. She tried to fight against whatever was making her approach them, but it was no use. The snow crunched under her feet as she trudged unwillingly forward.
As she got closer to the forest, the sounds of the families around faded out, until she could hear nothing but the beating of her heart. She reached towards the two individuals despite her best efforts to keep her hands firmly at her side. Her mouth moved, calling out to them. It was her voice, but it felt strangely foreign somehow.
The faces that had been silently observing the hill turned towards her. They showed no emotion when they gazed upon her with their cold eyes. They spun around without saying a word and walked into the trees. The darkness swallowed them as she watched, leaving no trace that they had ever been there. Her body ran after them, frantic, ignoring the thoughts that usually controlled it.
She couldn’t see well in the forest. Vague shapes that reminded her of unpleasant things passed by her in a blur as she sped blindly in pursuit of the two people that she didn’t want to see. Branches scrapped against her clothes and exposed skin, almost as if they were trying to keep her from going forward, and all the while she felt that something was trying to warn her about what she already knew lied ahead.
She suddenly stopped, surrounded by an inky blackness. She couldn’t see anything. She felt tears running down her face. She was alone, so very alone. A deep depression surrounded her as she fell to the ground, sobbing pitifully.
Get up! Get up and move! They’re coming! Run!
Desperately, she tried to get herself to leave, to do anything else but cry, but it was a futile endeavor. An angry breathing sound caused her to look up, right into the faces of the two she had been chasing.
No longer expressionless, they looked down at her in utter contempt and disgust. Their eyes were furious and their mouths were twisted into snarls. She screamed in terror as her parents descended upon her.
So that's that, as it were. I'll leave you now, to whatever you were doing in the first place. Also:
Autumn's random thought of the day: Never, ever disrespect the arm warmer. It does its job and looks damn good too.
