Submission for:
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments): Charms Assignment #2 Extra Credit -Write about returning from death
Hogwarts Writing Club Competition: Round 3 - design
He was floating... or was he? He couldn't very well tell. He was simply existing, moving within the darkness around him... or was it light? Everything just seemed so strange, and he didn't know up from down or left from right.
How long had he been there? It felt like it had been for some time, but he could still hear the echoes of shouting, the cries of pain and anguish, and then the strange sound of fluttering cloth.
But then there was a difference. He felt the change in his environment, a crackling blue energy of unusual design which called to him, so he moved towards it. It was delicious, addictive and it filled him with a warmth he hadn't realized he missed. He heard the sound of laughter, loud and boisterous. He tasted lovely amber liquid. And he saw a large hanging orb above his head.
He moved closer and closer. He wanted more. He had to have more.
But then the feelings disappeared and there was screaming! So much screaming! There was pain and soon he realized, it was his screaming. The sound droned on, filling the space around him as he felt himself stretching, being torn between two places.
Just when he thought he would break apart, he took a gasping breath, filling his lungs with life-giving oxygen. He felt the cold stone against his cheek and the chill against his bare back. The fluttering sound was back and he looked behind him to see a tattered curtain, coupled with the faint whispering that inhabited the space he was in.
But this place was different. This place was silent and dark and he was completely alone. It took a few moments before he got enough strength to push himself off the ground.
"Hello," Sirius Black called out, the first person to successfully return from the Veil.