Chapter 8: The Golden Eyed Man
Rachel
Darkness seemed to envelope me. It seemed to be the only thing I could see or feel. It was the only thing that was there, but only for a while. Out of the darkness came a blinding light. So this what they mean by the light at the end of the tunnel. I thought.
The light seemed to grow larger and white out the very darkness that held me captive. Is this heaven? I thought.
"Unfortunately not, Rachel." Said a booming, but soothing voice. The sound seemed to come from everywhere, but also from one place. I looked to see, but it was too bright. "Oops sorry about the light." Said the voice.
The light that surround him seemed to fade. Out of this gleaming wall of bright stepped a tall man with golden eyes. He seemed to be wearing what looked like a white lab coat.
"Who are you?" I asked, completely confused.
"You may call me Robert." He said as he ran his fingers through his dirty blonde hair. "And just to get this over with, no, I'm not God, or Allah, or whatever, I'm not an angle, I'm not some sort of omniscient being that watches over all of humanity… blah blah blah." He said arrogantly.
"Okay…" I said even more confused. "Then what are you?"
"Okay good, cut right to the chase." He said sitting into a chair. Wait, where did that come from? I thought. "Sit." He said. Looking behind me I saw that an identical chair had appeared behind me. I sat down and the chair seemed to conform to my comfort.
"Now, to start off, your dead." He said.
"Yeah, well, I know that." I rolled my eyes at him. "It's kind of hard not to notice the guy strangling the life out of you then waking up to your own body." I scoffed.
His face contorted in confusion, "What?"
"What do you mean, what?" I glared at him. "I died then I woke up next to my body then I was helping some medium kid help me catch my kille-"
"Wait so you aren't coming straight from your death?" He looked concerned.
"No… wait why would I come here?" I felt like this guy was messing with me.
"So you were still on earth after you died." His face contorted more.
"Yeah, so what, and you still haven't answer my question." I was starting to get angry.
"So you were…" He began to mumble his words. "… but how are you…."
"Hello?" He continued mumbling at me. "You know I'm still here." No response. I stood up "Hello!" I yelled.
"SHUT UP!" His body brightened and I felt a force push me back into my chair. Fear ran throughout my body and could feel it shaking. He obviously noticed and his face softened. He sighed, "Sor…sorry. I didn't mean to scare you."
"Wh-what are you?" I asked with fear still pulsing through my body.
He sighed again. "I'm dead, like you. But I've been able to move on. Where you are is a prison, or a bridge, depending on the way you look at it. By what you've told me so far, I can tell that you're already on the way to crossing the bridge.
"A bridge huh. How exactly do I cross." I asked.
"By finding the link that is holding you to earth and breaking it. This link can be almost anything. For some people it's an object, and for others it's a person, but most of the time It's a feeling, of your life being unfinished."
"Also the fact that you didn't come to me right after you died means that you died earlier than you were supposed to." He said.
"Earlier than I was supposed to?"
"Anyway, you need to find what's keeping you there cause where you are is unsafe." He warned. Suddenly the white room seemed to flicker between here and the alleyway.
"What was that?" I asked.
"Damnit! The connection's going out. Okay, I have to do this fast so listen carefully. As you know, your unfinished business is with your murderer. You need to catch him with Joshua if you want to move on." The room flickered again.
"Wait I can't do this by myself." I pleaded.
"The farther across the bridge you get the more powerful… use these pow…" The world was flickering in and out. "find yo… killer. Good lu…" He finally faded out and I was back in the alleyway that I was murdered in.
Damnit! I thought. I have to find Joshua and find out what he thinks of all of this. Then I started walking down the road. I'll find him and catch the bastard that killed me.
Thanks you guys for reading, Sorry about the huge break in the story, but I'm still planning on stopping after chapter 10 for school. Anyway I'm out. Peace!
-Adrian Thoreson 7/28/14
