Chapter one

White lights

A blinding white,then darkness passes over me. I try to fight it knowing its what i should do. I sucumb to it. I pass out, the flashing lights are the last thing I see.

Memories flash before my closed eyes. Then like water over snad the pictures are erased. There is nothing left. Time has no purpose here. It is peaceful and leaving seems like the wrong thing to do. I hear people calling out to me, drawing me back to reality. Don't they understand this is where I want to stay? I try to tell them this. I'm not sure they can hear me, or even understand me. I open my eyes and the lights burn, Shadows wander and drift around me. I close my eyes to get away from the burning lights. I hear a buzzing sound. Its the last things I hear before I fall back into my paradise again. A warm summer breeze washes over me. The smell of everything is enhanced ten fold. Its not to hot and its not to cold. This place is perfect....

After what seems like an eternity, the breeze slows. The smells fade. It starts getting colder with each passing second. I start to panic as this change settles in. Snow starts to fall and the flakes melt when they connect with my skin. I start to feel weird. With every melting flake I get a jolt and a movie flashes before my eyes. Finally one of the flashes shows me. They are blurry in some parts but I can clearly see myself. I'm smiling and laughing. The flash ends just as it had begun. I run my eyes across what use to be my paradise, now a barren waste land that stretchs on for eternity. I keep asking myself why. Why do I have to leave so soon? Suddenly the ground started to shake. I glanced down at my feet and saw that the ground was opening up from under me. I responded the only way I knew how to. I ran. The crack followed me, coming up behind me. I kept wishing for my paradise back. Next thing I know, I'm in the snow on my face. The crack split and circled around me. I realized that it was time to leave. Paradise or not, reality was calling. I fell into the darkness. It was like falling into the stars. The darkness rushed by faster and more white lights followed it. Big, small, every imaginable size, of continuous streaks. The darkness broke. Sounds started to come back. Voices and a beeping sound. I opened my eyes, and sat up to stretch but the pain that finally decided to show did and instead I screamed...