"SOMEONE HELP ME!" I screamed with all the air I had in my lungs as I clawed my fingers into the dirt, trying to keep from being dragged further into the dark.
These black branches had just sprung from the forest and started dragging me in, wrapping around my legs and hips and digging their thorns into my skin. I screamed as loud as I could but I didn't see anyone turn on their lights…or come outside…the neighbor's dog didn't even start barking. I was left to watch as my house faded away and I was swallowed by the dark.
The branches wrapped around my legs, encasing me in a massive wooden cocoon and trapping my lower body inside it. I kept clawing into the earth, like a wild animal and shrieking like a banshee. The branches began working their way up the rest of my body and soon, my whole body was encased and I was left in pitch black terror.
My throat burned from my screams but I couldn't silence my frightened breaths as I tried to catch my breath. I could feel the prison moving around me and I was so scared I could barely move but I suddenly couldn't hear anything.
I started pounding on the cocoon and screaming again, pleading to be let out or spared but the next thing I knew…it began to grow hot inside it, as if I'd been placed in an oven…who's to say I haven't been?! I tried to resist the sleepiness that started to weigh down my eyes but within minutes that passed far too quickly…I was fading into the darkness behind my own eyes. Even with my eyes closed they burned as I began sweating buckets and I could taste the saltiness on my lips.
"I just can't catch a damn break…" I thought and succumbed to…to…
I stumbled over the thought as its name started whispering into my head.
I am The Entity