welcome back one and all to another part of to hell and back! i wont keep you waiting, read enjoy review and whatnot.
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arc 2 pt 4 continuation
eve lay in her bed, though she was happy to have a new companion, she was plagued by the thoughts that attacked her in the first place. once again her mind was paralyzed by the thought of what the next day brought. for hours, all that she could do was lay there, every minute passing like a year, the crow she had tamed, injuring it in the process, was resting on her lap. its body slowly rising and falling. eve smiled lightly while stroking his head before returning to her sad and downcast mood. after a while, her eyelids grew heavy and she could no longer fight sleep.
eve slowly opened her eyes, she was surrounded by mist. the grey cobble and stone bricks setting rather uncomfortably on her back, so she slowly rose to her feet. as she did so she became very light-headed. After the world stopped spinning, she naturally looked around to see where she was, she was in the graveyard she had found earlier, she noticed everything was lit with an unnatural purple glow, cascading from the ghostly black and purple fire the lampposts were emitting, there were no tombstones here, at least as far as she could see. she looked forward, and paced forward at a leisurely rate taking in the details of what she knew deep in the back of her mind was a dream. she came to the area where the pavilion housed the large coffin, and sure enough it stood tall among the empty yard but it was the same as it was before, just a large sarcophagus, something's missing. eve thought to her self as she stared at the building. she decided that she would turn back to see if she had missed anything when she came to the entrance she found the gates were opened and the path grew on a few more feet before fading from existence, haze surrounds something just off the path, she approaches it cautiously. she instinctively waves at the obscuring mist as if to disperse it and is successful. but she finds a tombstone, a small block of stone about two feet tall. haze still surrounds the middle of it, before eve can try to disperse the mist, the thick haze is pushed away by an unknown force and now reveals blood red text, eve read it in horror, here lies... a large gap between that line and a paragraph, raises eve's suspicion but she reads the next paragraph a girl who suffered at the hand of fate, born into a family which she could not belong. for in her time of judgement she failed her test, and her family brutally killed her, as punishment. eve slowly stepped back, the description, parallel to how her's could be. The ground beneath her began to shake and a red glow etched three large letters into the gap that read 'EVE.' she backed away quickly and ran the other way looking behind her only once to see that the ground was falling into a black void, she sprinted towards the only other thing in the graveyard, the pavilion. as she approached the pavilion, she quickly noted that light was seeping through the cracks, a weird and crazy idea came into her head, she came to the head of the sarcophagus and pushed heavily on the lid, which slid off with ease, revealing a trapdoor, not a corpse not even musty air, just a trapdoor. hearing the crumbling of dirt falling she pried open the trapdoor, which shot blinding amounts of light into her eyes, but it did not detour her, she jumped in and her vision was filled with white, before falling unconscious.
eve woke up the next day in her bed like normal with no memory of the dream that occurred. and so she went on with her day as she normally did, all the while trying to hide her new pet. her worries of tomorrow growing like wildfire, she remained in the confines of her room for most of the day. night came and she went to sleep or at least tried to, for hours still she could not get to sleep. all of the thoughts plagued her still, and it was chipping away at her sanity. she felt her eyes become watery, she knew that weeping in general was considered weakness and highly disliked among her relatives, but she could hold back the tears no longer, she was tired of their constant ridicule and disowning. she softly let the tears flow for hours. until eventually fell asleep.
eve felt awake, mostly. she dare not open her eyes though, she did not want to be reminded of her "Family," and thoughts of her fate. yet she knew eventually she would have to open her eyes. she sat up slowly in a slouched position and opened her eyes halfway: she was against a wall, in a room of grey stone brick. she looked around and knew that this was a nightmare, headless black skinned bodies surrounded her on all sides. they started slowly pacing towards her inch by inch, making the nightmare that much more agonizing. she half-heartedly crawled over to the wall, and sat in fetal, waiting for the monsters to tear her apart with their unnaturally sharp and long claws, when she notices the doorway behind the monsters, lies a faint orange light growing brighter each second. she continues to stare at the doorway, the orange light looking mildly hopeful. eve hears a voice distant and low "hello? is anybody there?" she wanted to scream out that she was there but her mouth was sealed shut. the demonic creatures are only ten feet away from her and the orange light grows brighter. using every last ounce of her will power she is able to utter one word "help..." the orange light grows significantly brighter as it approaches "Hello?" the voice speaks, sounding closer. "Help me..." she mutters a little louder and the orange glow continues to grow, behind the monsters which are only 5 feet away, she is able to make out a figure bathed in orange light which she saw to be fire, running towards her, one of the monsters growls and prepares to strike the human bathed in fire reached the doorway and leaps high into the air, as the monster brings its arm down the human screams "NOOOOOO!" the monster touches eve and her vision grows red then black.
eve shot upright in her bed, her face white, her hand at her throat breathing deeply and quickly, the sun just peaking over the horizon. this is it, eve thinks as she gets up out of bed, this will be the day i die.
oh will it now, eve? will it?
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