Darkness in the Sunlight
Prologue: Revived from the Depths
He woke up on cool pavement. He could feel water rushing into his parched mouth and down his dry throat. "Wait, water," He opened his almond brown eyes to see rain coming down. He could feel, he could see, he could hear, his senses had come back. He wasn't in the Shadow Realm no longer, the shadows and souls weren't suffocating him. There he couldn't move, all his senses were dead, he starved but he couldn't eat, he was thirsty but he couldn't drink, but he didn't die. It was all part of the endless suffering, almost the equivalent of hell, in his opinion. He looked around.
He pushed himself up on numb arms and sat on trembling knees. He tried to stand but he fell into a rain puddle. The water splashed unto his face, snapping his eyes out of their blurry state. "What in the hell," He looked around as he stood up again, this time bracing himself up with his hands on the walls of one the two buildings that made up the alley. He was back in the Real World. He was wearing Ryou's clothes. "How did I…" He tried to walk, he took slow easy steps. He wasn't imagining it, he was back.
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She turned her head when she felt a heavy pulse, one that signaled that a soul had returned from the Shadow Realm. "Keilani," Her father called her. Her father, mother, and siblings had stopped. Keilani snapped out of it and ran to catch up. She took her father's hand. She smiled and hugged his arm. He smiled back at her and kissed her on the top of her head.
When no one was looking she glanced over her shoulder again.
To Be Continued…