The Loud sounds, I had to plug my earS once again To keEp from defiNing. It was the sound of the devil's laughter. The floor began to freeze over faster than I could run back out of the cabin. It was happening again. The same freezing chill came over as my breath began to blind me from its thick fog. I was slipping in. I was slipping deeper and deeper with each nightmare, hallucination, delusion or whatever this was. It was sucking me back to that very night I had lost my little girl. It was making me relive every horrific experience I had felt that night. This was torture.
They have no control over what has just shadowed over them. They sat there staring at Dr K not responding. Dr K was trying to talk to them but they couldn't make out the words. They could see but weren't able to engage. They are trapped. Trapped within themselves, trapped in a world in which they have come to know and believe.
Just before running out of this cabin, I grab a few flares that were sitting on a shelf thinking they might come in handy. Walls of Ice surround me outside. I couldn't believe how cold it had become. I had no direction I just kept moving. I almost felt as though I was being led by something else.
I followed them. Step by step. I was in control now I must keep them moving. A blue glow I have framed in a world of snow. A path guided in dark will reveal truth I intend to show.
Cheryl's voice ran through my head.
"Run daddy, you can't fight them. Run!"
I began running. My heart was racing. I didn't see anything or anyone. I had no idea why this was happening. I have had dreams that seemed real but this took me from Dr K's office right into Silent Hill on that same night. I felt like I was being watched in the shadows. I periodically used my flashlight to look behind me as I kept up my pace. I couldn't see them. I couldn't see the demons.
I came up on various log cabins in which I just stormed into and out of hoping for someone to be inside of one to help me. I was alone, utterly and hopelessly alone. No sign of any life. I wondered if I would be stuck inside of this hellish nightmare. Just then I heard a door from the up stair rooms of one of the cabins. I heard heavy breathing and the sound of footsteps coming down the dark stairs. This whole cabin inside was pitch black other than the little light from my flashlight that began dimming.
"Shit, I must be losing battery"
I couldn't see what was coming down the stairs but it didn't sound inviting and I didn't want to stick around to find out. I ran out the back door of the cabin.
Run, run until you can run no more!
I ran for my life. Hearing the door open behind me I look back. My dying light captures one of them coming through the door. I turn back around and run faster!
emit ni nrael lliw uoy gnihtemos si sihT
They ran at me screaming. My flashlight was becoming dimmer now. It went from little light to no light. I had to run in the pitch black. I could Still hear them screaming behind me as they got closer.
"Uhhggh!"
I tripped and hit the floor shoulder first. One of them jumped on me as I fell to the floor. It began choking the life out of me, trying to kill me.
Relax baby I'lltake care ofyou. I'll sing you a peaceful lullaby.
I couldn't see anything. I knew I was going to die. I didn't know if I should just let it kill me right there and then or go down with a fight. Just then I remembered…
"The flares!"
I could use the flares to help me see and maybe even as a weapon. I ignite the flare. The light from the flare seemed to keep the demons off of me. It let go of me instantly once it was lit. I held the flare with me the rest of the way, smashing through cabin door after cabin door but what seemed to be no end. I couldn't find a human being for the life of me. What has happened to me?
You won't run from your fears for much longer. You will reach an end. The truth wont remain frozen in time forever.
I came to a cabin complexly dark inside like the others but my flare lit the room pretty well. The room looked awfully familiar. The light caught a couple shadowy figures, one on the couch and a couple by the counter. They seemed to be human! A Family! Thank god! Wait… They are frozen… They seemed to have been frozen alive! OH MY GOD. ITS US! ITS MY FAMILY!
Cheryl is on the couch, crying, frozen. And it's me and… My wife. Ware all frozen. What has happened here? Where am I? I was brought back to a time just before our divorce. Oh god, poor Cheryl…
[I'm on the phone. Yeah, I'm coming back early. This isn't working out.
Mommy!
Not now honey, Mommy's on the phone. Harry, Put your damn drink down and look after her!
Mommy!
Shush. Go show Daddy. This whole trip was a bad idea. He's not better here. Worse if anything.
I can't put up with it anymore.
I won! Mommy, I won!
Alright! In a minute! Give me a second, Diane.
I know, that's the problem, Diane.
Mom, look.
Was that your glass? What was she doing...
Mommy!
Oh my God, is that blood?]
Why was she never there for you Cheryl? Why? She knew I was busy fixing the car or doing something. She always tried to put the blame on me. Cheryl was trying to show her something… What was going on here? I stood back up from the frozen couch. They were gone.
"The frozen bodies, where did they go? Who is doing this!"
I continued on, leaving the cabin. I had no idea what was going on or why this was happening to me. This was truly a living nightmare. This was truly happening to me but I couldn't understand how.
Rid yourself of whatever it is that is constricting you.
I kept running trying not to let my mind distract me. I used my flare to shield me and to light my path. There were glaciers all round me and Ice beneath my feet. I was slipping over and over again on the ice. It was really wearing me down. The demons seemed to become more in number now, trying to fight them off through narrow iced over caverns.
Find the light; for your own sake.
Finally I reached a cabin with a light on! Slamming through the door I fainted from my nightmare and awoke from my delusion… I became instantly warmer as I slowly came back to Dr K's office.