The Return to the Labyrinth
Epilogue
Stairs. So many stairs. So many that the mere thought of climbing one more hurt my feet to no end. My breathe came in hard gusts as I climbed toward my destination. I could feel the sweat on the back of my neck dripping down and the rough stone under my hands when they came in contact with it as I stumbled. My throat felt sore as a screamed for him again. Up up up more stairs.
They filled the walls in confusing directions. Some i couldn't even think about climbing, some I didn't even know where they would take me, they didn't make any sense. And that was the problem. They couldn't take me where I was nor where I needed to go, they just went on forever. Down down down more stairs.
I could hear something else in this prison; I tried not concentrating on...his voice. No I mustn't listen to him. I can only focus on finding him, the person I was climbing these stairs for, the boy that I had come through dangers untold for, Toby my dear brother that I would solve a thousand mazes and fight a million goblins for.
I became also aware of another sound. I ticking clock. It was loud in my head. Seeming to get louder the farther I went. Louder and louder until I had to collapse and covered my ears with balled up fists, Shut my eyes and find the will to keep going. But I couldn't. The ticking was wearing me down and I was growing weak. They seemed to sound out...Tick tick tick...fail fail fail.
Tears slid down my cheeks as this realization hit me like a ton of bricks, I had failed him. That was the truth of it all. I had failed my brother. Louder and louder. I was now in a tight ball on a small stair. Feeling like my entire being would explode. Light shined ahead as the ticking continued and the tolling of the clock sounded thirteen times. The light seemed to fill my eyes behind there lids and force me to pay attention.
A voice...his voice...sounded out in front of me, a whisper only but yet so loud in my ears that they could carve the words into my brain.
"You've failed Sarah"
My hand shot out in front of me and I heard myself scream out
"No! Toby!"
