Robyn was having a nightmare... or was she?
She was lying on her back, staring into the black, shifting clouds. She obviously wasn't in Silent Hill because, instead of being unbearably cold, she was warm enough to have broken into a mild sweat.
The air-raid siren was wailing again, but rather than being loud and close, it sounded far an otherworldly. Robyn could sense that she was no longer in her world, nor was she in the 'other' world; she was merely drifting through a mixture of nightmare and prophecy.
She could hear a sound, like a small electric current racing through something with an echo. There was a jolting sensation, and then she felt an overwhelming feeling of loss, fear, and adrenalin, as if someone she knew had just died, and she were in risk of being put in the same situation.
The feeling soon subsided, and the black clouds above started to thin and disperse, revealing a mass of swirling red fluids suspended by an unknown force. Robyn was suddenly propelled at the red fluids, which she hit, feeling as if she'd fallen into a pool.
She closed her eyes as to stop the red fluid seeping through her tear ducts, and into her brain. She'd held her breath, and had her hands over her ears, scrunching up her face to block her nasal airway.
The water seemed to slowly disappear, as if she'd floated to the surface, and then there was a jolting sensation, and the feeling of concrete beneath her feet. A cold breeze washed over her, and, when she opened her eyes, the sight of eerie, slow-moving fog, and a row of motel rooms bombarded her.
Robyn was back in Silent Hill, but not in real life, she was still dreaming. All the doors to the motel rooms started to glow around the edges and shake as if they were going to come off their hinges, and then, out of the fog in the distance, came a figure. It was herself... Robyn was looking at an exact mental clone of herself, looking angry and disgruntled.
"It's me again," she said, approaching, "The one from the bus, when you hit your head... It's me"
"Who exactly are you?" Robyn asked
"I'm you!" the Robyn clone shouted angrily, "But seeing as the names could get confusing, you can call me... Sarah"
"Okay... fine... Where did you come from?" Robyn queried uneasily, patting her coat down trying to find her gun.
"I've always been there, in the back of your mind" Sarah replied, "It was the presence of Silent Hill, which awoke me, and now I'm out to get you"
"How do you know me...? How do you know Silent Hill...?"
"I lived here a long time ago, before you were born, with a man called Karl Mörder, who came here with his daughter from Germany" Sarah started to explain
"Wait" Robyn said, "Mörder? Isn't that German for killer...? How cliché"
"He was a wonderful man!" Sarah spat... "Anyway, I was much like you. Calm, naïve, and probably would have done the same as you, if I were in your position right now. But Karl, and his religious group, fled to this country after being exiled from Germany"
"Wait... I read about that in a history book a while back. Isn't that the clan of 'the dark cleansing'? The people who believed in a hell-like world as paradise?" Robyn sighed, "I thought they'd died"
"No" Sarah replied simply, "They came here... to Silent Hill, and made their home on the island in the lake. I used to live here when I was sole beneficiary of your body, but I was sacrificed for the gods in a ritual, which didn't even work"
"So what are you doing now?"
"I was heir to the Mörder throne... until Karl decided that his daughter, Teufel, would make a better leader" Sarah continued, "Well... I'm coming back now, and I'm going to get my revenge on 'Das dunkle Reinigen'. I'm going to kill Karl, and Teufel Mörder, and take the throne"
"And you're going to need my body to do it... aren't you?" Robyn asked suspiciously
"Yes, well... When the time comes I'll 'borrow' your body to do the dirty work" Sarah replied, "And when I've used your body for the first time, I'm going to be able to come back whenever I want"
"Like a multiple personality disorder?" Robyn asked, "... I'm not going to let you take my body... I'm only here to find James, and then I'm gone"
"Well, don't take too long... or else I'm here for good" Sarah explained, leaning on a nearby lamppost, and then promptly vanishing.
Robyn felt dizzy, and then she yawned...
... She awoke to the sound of the waves, and the sight of the islands shore. Haley was nowhere to be seen. Instead, there was a huge castle-like church building consuming almost the entire island. Robyn stood up, with her handgun still in her hand, and her pocket-lamp working, and even though she was soaked, she still started to make her way to the building before her.
She wanted to meet Karl Mörder for herself...
She was lying on her back, staring into the black, shifting clouds. She obviously wasn't in Silent Hill because, instead of being unbearably cold, she was warm enough to have broken into a mild sweat.
The air-raid siren was wailing again, but rather than being loud and close, it sounded far an otherworldly. Robyn could sense that she was no longer in her world, nor was she in the 'other' world; she was merely drifting through a mixture of nightmare and prophecy.
She could hear a sound, like a small electric current racing through something with an echo. There was a jolting sensation, and then she felt an overwhelming feeling of loss, fear, and adrenalin, as if someone she knew had just died, and she were in risk of being put in the same situation.
The feeling soon subsided, and the black clouds above started to thin and disperse, revealing a mass of swirling red fluids suspended by an unknown force. Robyn was suddenly propelled at the red fluids, which she hit, feeling as if she'd fallen into a pool.
She closed her eyes as to stop the red fluid seeping through her tear ducts, and into her brain. She'd held her breath, and had her hands over her ears, scrunching up her face to block her nasal airway.
The water seemed to slowly disappear, as if she'd floated to the surface, and then there was a jolting sensation, and the feeling of concrete beneath her feet. A cold breeze washed over her, and, when she opened her eyes, the sight of eerie, slow-moving fog, and a row of motel rooms bombarded her.
Robyn was back in Silent Hill, but not in real life, she was still dreaming. All the doors to the motel rooms started to glow around the edges and shake as if they were going to come off their hinges, and then, out of the fog in the distance, came a figure. It was herself... Robyn was looking at an exact mental clone of herself, looking angry and disgruntled.
"It's me again," she said, approaching, "The one from the bus, when you hit your head... It's me"
"Who exactly are you?" Robyn asked
"I'm you!" the Robyn clone shouted angrily, "But seeing as the names could get confusing, you can call me... Sarah"
"Okay... fine... Where did you come from?" Robyn queried uneasily, patting her coat down trying to find her gun.
"I've always been there, in the back of your mind" Sarah replied, "It was the presence of Silent Hill, which awoke me, and now I'm out to get you"
"How do you know me...? How do you know Silent Hill...?"
"I lived here a long time ago, before you were born, with a man called Karl Mörder, who came here with his daughter from Germany" Sarah started to explain
"Wait" Robyn said, "Mörder? Isn't that German for killer...? How cliché"
"He was a wonderful man!" Sarah spat... "Anyway, I was much like you. Calm, naïve, and probably would have done the same as you, if I were in your position right now. But Karl, and his religious group, fled to this country after being exiled from Germany"
"Wait... I read about that in a history book a while back. Isn't that the clan of 'the dark cleansing'? The people who believed in a hell-like world as paradise?" Robyn sighed, "I thought they'd died"
"No" Sarah replied simply, "They came here... to Silent Hill, and made their home on the island in the lake. I used to live here when I was sole beneficiary of your body, but I was sacrificed for the gods in a ritual, which didn't even work"
"So what are you doing now?"
"I was heir to the Mörder throne... until Karl decided that his daughter, Teufel, would make a better leader" Sarah continued, "Well... I'm coming back now, and I'm going to get my revenge on 'Das dunkle Reinigen'. I'm going to kill Karl, and Teufel Mörder, and take the throne"
"And you're going to need my body to do it... aren't you?" Robyn asked suspiciously
"Yes, well... When the time comes I'll 'borrow' your body to do the dirty work" Sarah replied, "And when I've used your body for the first time, I'm going to be able to come back whenever I want"
"Like a multiple personality disorder?" Robyn asked, "... I'm not going to let you take my body... I'm only here to find James, and then I'm gone"
"Well, don't take too long... or else I'm here for good" Sarah explained, leaning on a nearby lamppost, and then promptly vanishing.
Robyn felt dizzy, and then she yawned...
... She awoke to the sound of the waves, and the sight of the islands shore. Haley was nowhere to be seen. Instead, there was a huge castle-like church building consuming almost the entire island. Robyn stood up, with her handgun still in her hand, and her pocket-lamp working, and even though she was soaked, she still started to make her way to the building before her.
She wanted to meet Karl Mörder for herself...