Difters: Unbounded -Chapter One-

Everything was quiet.

The air was completely still. Not a single sound perturbed the silence that engulfed my entire being. Darkness coated the air I breathed, thick like tar; suffocating.

I couldn’t help but wonder if this was what death felt like. Then again, how was I to say I wasn’t already dead?

Numbness prickled uncomfortably at my body. With the slightest bit of encouragement, I tried to move my hand. However, no matter what I did, my body would not succumb to my urges.

Meanwhile, the darkness grew heavier, pressing against me with a downward force so strong, I was sure my body would break. The pressure forced the air from my lungs, and with it, my energy began to decline. I could feel it leaking through every pore, invading my body as an unwelcome guest.

Just as I was sure I was dead, my eyelids fluttered open.

Light flooded my vision, blinding after having lived in darkness for what felt like eternity. Though the light faded, my vision remained out of focus and a loud buzzing echoed in my ears, drowning out any and all thoughts that came to mind.

My arms and legs were constricted, rejecting my requests to move. I fought against it, trying to break free from whatever had held me prisoner to such hell for so long.

I took the opportunity to look and see where I had been imprisoned. Through my hampered sight, it seemed as though I was in a hospital. But why?

My pulse increased at such a rate, I was sure my heart could burst from my chest and flutter away to leave me in this bed. Ridiculous, I know. Anxiety flourished through me at my sudden realization that  I had no recollection of anything at all. Not even my name.

During my confusion, I hadn’t noticed someone had entered the room and began furiously working at the leather binds strapped around my body. Her frantic gestures gave me a sense of urgency I wasn’t aware I should have felt until now.

She was yelling, but no sound breached through the ceaseless ringing in my ears. No matter how hard I tried to respond, my lips were sealed shut. As much as I wanted to get up away from the flashing red light that eerily lit the room, it simply wasn’t possible.

Her face froze in a look of pain and something I couldn’t quite identify before her body slumped to the floor. Blood oozed out of two holes in the back of her chest, pooling onto the floor.

Despite the scene, I couldn’t help but notice the black mass looming in the doorway. The room began to feel dark, its presence permeating the air with a sickness fouler than anything I had felt before. My mind connected this dark, almost depressing presence to death itself, coming to take me away from this nightmare.

As my mind began to lose sight of consciousness, I noticed the feeling starting to ebb away, replaced by the vision of a stunning pair of blue eyes before they too, were swallowed in the dark.