Rain in the Darkness
Her shriek seemed to slow down the surroundings. Everything became irrelevant, his wound didn't hurt anymore, his usual toughness vanished...
They looked at each other, knowing that something had happened.
But his mind didn't want to accept it. "Come on", he said –shouted- desperately, while trying to hold her, "the skiff is right over there..."
But she didn't move by herself, she just looked into his shining eyes.
"Carolyn!"
And then the beast attacked again.
She almost fell, but he held her.
Her mouth opened slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but instead she just kept looking at him.
Time seemed to stand still.
Her eyes showed him so many things, fear, loneliness, and yet something else... something he couldn't describe...
Before he could say or do something, the beast grabbed her from behind and she disappeared into the darkness...
Riddick fell to the ground.
She was gone.
"Not for me" he whispered
He felt a tear rolling down his cheek
"Not for me!"
Those last three words echoed through the darkness, until the rain was the only thing again that could be heard...
A part of him changed at that moment. The killer that everybody knew was no longer the same person.
Carolyn died for him and he... had almost left the planet without her –and the others.
He had never felt sadness before, not to mention regret. Now these two feelings were eating him, beating him to the ground.
She taught him how to feel...how to love... and he had lost her.
He didn't know later how he managed to get to the skiff in time, but what he did know was that he almost decided to stay on the planet and die. His life suddenly seemed worthless. But there was a voice somewhere in his head that told him not to give up, to move on and continue life.
He never heard that voice again...
