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-Sumomo92

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Ch. 3 Ari: Nightmarish Interludes

Run, just keep running.

The voice echoed in her head, the tunnel was so dark and she couldn't find the direction where it came from. It had no distinct tone of male or female, it drove her insane.

Run, you know you can't fight it on your own; you can't fight your sins.

"Shut up…." Ari whispered, her heart ached at what the voice echoed. The darkness was getting too far, too much again. "I got out of here before and I'll do it again, I won't let you beat me."

Beat you?

The voice changed, it was now an older women's voice, talking with a cackle. Ari looked around left and right and found no on in the darkness enclosing her. It was getting tighter and tighter to breathe.

That is the easy part Ari, I always knew how to make you squeal like the little rat that you are…

The darkness wrapped around her ankles, making her scream as she felt a pull down wards through the darkness below her. It was an endless field of nothingness around her; the only sound was her screaming and the cackle of someone's laughter, thick as a whip…

0.o.0

Shooting up in bed Ari was sweating. She hasn't had that nightmare in ages…or at least she told herself in her mind. Elbows propped up on her legs as she held her forehead, the wet of her brow feeling disgusting in her fingers. "God…any god there is….why did that dream have to come back? Why can't it just go away?" Sighing, she held back her urge to start crying, the darkness would not take her soul, not like it took others.

She would not surrender to the fight.