Chapter 4
Dan was floating.
He could feel himself floating in a vast emptiness, dark and comforting. He couldn't see anything, but he could sense his body being there. He let himself embrace the silence, thankful that it was all over at last. No pain, no guilt, no anguish. He was free to drift forever, and he could feel that it was okay to float in this void.
A sharp light flashed to his right, and he felt a spark of doubt.
There were colours gradually approaching him from a distance. Pale blues and greens, a soft white. He floated towards them, feeling like it was the natural thing to do.
Another sharp light flashed to his left, and he felt himself recoiling away from it.
He tried to continue towards the lights, he tried so hard to stop thinking about the flashes, but he knew that more of them were coming.
Another flash hit from behind him, and he felt what he'd been running so hard from, pain. His back arched as it hit his chest, and his fingers tingled with the most intense pins and needles he'd ever felt. This was wrong, all wrong. He was supposed to feel safe here, he was supposed to be away from the pain. He pushed forward, fighting against the flashes, finding that he could pretend they weren't happening.
But then he heard the voice.
"DAN!"
It shook the walls of his shelter
"Dandandandandandandandan"
It cracked open his colour cloud
"Please hold on please stay with me please dan please"
He felt his body shaking as the feeling of ice moved through his body, the cloud twisting and distorting away from him
"Please please please"
And then his face appeared. The face Dan both wanted to see and didn't.
Phil Lester. His best friend. The only real friend he had, and the friend that he had to leave behind. The image blurred and jolted, each time it did another sharp pain hit him.
The flashes were becoming more frequent and harder each time, they were bigger and brighter and more painful.
There were other voices flooding his space, chattering and beeping and wailing. It was too much, too fast, he tossed and turned trying to curl up, but the pain jolted his body straight every time he tried to curl up. He couldn't cope he couldn't cope he couldn't cope HE COULDN'T CO-
"Beep…..Beep…..Beep…..Beep"
