Apocalypse

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She stayed away for as long as she could. Fighting towards the light, screaming and clawing in an attempt to get away from the body that was sucking her back in. The body that was supposed to be hers, but had ceased to be a sanctuary was calling her. It had become a joke, a cruel punch line, dangling release before her then snatching it away the moment before she reached it. She was desperate to escape the life that she had been imprisoned in and she fought every time even though she knew it was useless. She fell, like always, back into her herself and awoke suddenly, gasping for air. She was overwhlemed with sensation, blinded by the light in the room. When she was climbing towards oblivion she was formless, free from definition and hard surfaces. But coming back was like an attack on her senses. The memories that she tried to escape hit her with full force, holding her paralyzed and frozen in pain on the bed. She was alive, again, fully healed, yet she felt completely empty. Alone in a world that threatened to destroy her and never followed through. Forced against her will to continue living a life that she gave up on long ago. She came to herself lying naked in bed. On all sides she was surrounded by white curtains and blankets. They were like a mockery of the purity she no longer believed in. What little there was left of her ruined, diseased heart had shattered into fragments too small to truly exist anymore. She used to think that emptiness would bring her peace, but she found herself frozen in agony. Weighed down by the numbness, cold and stagnant, that permeated every cell until she felt like she would shatter into millions of ice shards if anyone dared to touch her. Sounds of footsteps tromping past ... ... middle of paper ... ...pity or remorse he felt. He leaned back in his chair, smirking, and beckoned her to him. He expected her to come, she had come every time before. But she knew that if she did, it would be over. She would be his toy for the rest of eternity, and she would watch their army fighting over the bones of men, women, and children in the villages they destroyed until her sou l finally ceased to exist. She stood looking at him as his condescending request to come to him became a demand, and through narrowed eyes he saw what she was thinking. He saw that something had changed, and before he had the chance to react she bolted from the doorway and back down the hall towards her room. The image of his arrogant eyes becoming sinister spurred her to move faster as she realized what her body had decided to do before her mind had even agreed to it. She had to get out of there.

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