đŠALTHEA
Escape was impossible. Hours had passed like a blink, yet warped into an eternity. But I stood panting exactly where I started after running for so long. My lungs ached, my eyes straining to see in the drowning darkness. Yet, despite all I tried, there was nothing in the nothingness in which I found myself.
My heart jumped into a painful sprint that jolted me. Had I died? Was this the realm of the dead where I would spend all of eternity?
The questions swirled around in my headânone of them would ever be answered because I was trapped here.
My mind had begun to ache with fear, dread weaving through me until there was only the suffocating emptiness and desolation.
I had no memory of what had happened. Each time I tried to grasp at the last thing I remembered, it evaded me, slipping past me like smoke.
