Chapter 8: Behind Bars
Eight years ago, Lekali's P.O.V.
I found myself in a sea of fog I couldn't see more than three feet in front of me. Everywhere I look I just see fog. No objects coming out of the grey, listless swirls, just more emptiness and fog. I want out; I begin to slowly walk forward searching for anything in the emptiness. I feel like I walk for hours without a single sign. For all I know without landmarks or anyway to judge distance I could be walking in circles. I could have sworn I was walking in a straight line but there's no way to tell.
What is this place?
Suddenly I see the bars of a giant gate stretching up through the nothingness. I pray it's a way out of this dark, morbid place, I run to it. A pair of sharp, golden amber eyes snap open from behind the gate. They stare straight at me cruelly, I stop short. The voice I thought was gone echoes in the vast emptiness.
"So you've come to taunt me little human?" Her voice sounds ancient and worn, my heart skips a beat.
I stutter, "Wh-why a-are you st-still h-here!"
What seem to be Taka's cold eyes narrow and she steps forth from the darker shadows. Her huge form looms over me making me feel very much small and insignificant. She's just as I pictured her before, or maybe that wasn't my imagination after all, but she's more frightening now that I really stand before her. She lowers her head until we are eye to eye.
"The seal still holds me here. My only escape is if it is broken or you die Lekali."
My knees shake as she says it with such a cold, calm voice. Then it dawns on me. That's what she tried to do! Taka tried to kill me!
"B-but if I die you do too!"
"Exactly, there's more than one kind of escape child."
"What did I ever do to deserve to be killed Taka!"
My voice sounds faint even to my own ears and Taka closes her eyes almost seeming to be in regret.
"Your misfortune is that you were born. Any other day and I would not be here."
Taka straightens up and steps back into the shadows vanishing from view. I stand there motionless staring into the darkness feeling helpless. Taka's voice echoes from the depths once more.
"Go home Lekali."
With those words I awake. I take a few deep breaths to steady myself as I stare up at the ceiling of a pitch black room.
It was just a dream…or was it? Why are there no lights? I thought this was a hospital…
I hear someone move in the chair beside my bed. It's too dark to see who it is but I assume it's the same man from before or that lady.
They stayed the whole night?
