Numb.
That was the first sensation I felt after I woke up.
My whole body was numb.
And then I opened my eyes. Or at least tried too. The sun was too bright and I closed my eyes, but after a while, the clouds blocked the light, and I could see what was around me.
Then I remembered.
The voice.
The voice of a girl called me here. Or it was a boy? I don't know for sure. It was... hard to tell. It remind me of myself, and I decided to look into the void.
Yeah, there was a whole. I was at the top of the mountain, I didn't mind the legends, I wanted to know what was so... mysterious about that place. And then I heard the voice. It called for help, but the thing is, it came from inside the mountain, from the very hole in it. I leaned to look inside the hole, and only saw black, nothing, until I...
"Fell..." I whispered.
I got up and looked for the voice. There was no one in the sort of room I was, and the voice couldn't be heard.
Above was the exit, way, way up.
"How...?"
The flowers beneath me cleared my confusion, if just a little. While the bed of golden flowers could have softened my fall, I don't see how I could be still alive, without any injuries.
While I stretched my body to clear the numbness in my limbs, a horrible scream came right next to me.
I instantly jumped and looked where the sound came from. There was nothing.
Then another scream, and some grunts came, right in the middle of the bed of flowers. But no one was there.
The screams ceased, and more grunts replaced them. They were in pain. But who?
"Am I going crazy?"
"Ugh... Why?!" The voice said.
It was them. The same person that asked for help before.
"Why I'm alive?!"
"Hello...?" I hesitantly said.
"Why...?" They said in a whisper.
It seemed they couldn't hear me.
I turned around to get a better view of the room. It was all dark, except for the flower bed where the sun's light could touch. Yet it seemed like a corridor opened up in front of it.
When I turned back to the flower bed, a body in pain was in middle, sobbing.
My eyes widened at the sight of a translucent body, progressively gaining color, in front of me.
"Hello?" I tried again.
No response, besides the sobs.
I ventured and got closer to the body. It looked like a kid, with an uncanny resemblance to myself. It was terrifying at first, how even my sweater translated into the same clothing with the negative colors of mine. But she, or perhaps he, was in pain.
I glanced at the blackness of the sole corridor, and pondered to go and ask for help. But they could, maybe, start hearing me, just as how they suddenly made themselves visible.
"D-do you hear me...?" I tried yet again and found the same answer.
I sighed, not sure what to do.
Then footsteps could be heard from the corridor, the sound echoing through the hall.
Without hesitation I quickly entered the corridor, briefly glancing back at the flower bed and the human on it.
It was dark, but not pitch-black as I initially thought. Maybe the light blinded me. There was a door frame in my left at the end of the passage, and I peeked to what was inside it.
I, again, didn't found the owner of the sound, just another hole, making a natural skylight in the room.
But maybe, just as before, the footsteps were made by someone that I couldn't see... yet.
I turned my head to look at girl.
"Wait..." I shook my head. "How did I-?"
A bright light stopped my thoughts, and I could saw a shinny, red heart just above the girl's body.
Then the same brightness appeared in my chest, nearly blinding me.
"It sounds like it came from over here..." I heard a childish voice say, coming from the door frame.
I tried to look in the direction of the voice, but the light in my chest didn't let me see, while more footsteps passed right next to me.
I was in panic at this point.
"Oh! You've fallen down... haven't you?" The other voice finally said, distant. And the light died.
There was no body in the flower bed.
"What just happened...?" I asked myself.
I stared at the part touched by the light of both rooms, dumbfounded.