VESSEL

The first thing I noticed was how everything appeared to be covered in a veil of darkness. A very natural yet disturbing color. My hearing seemed to be dulled however I could barely make out multiple pairs of footsteps. They seemed to grow increasingly louder with each pa.s.sing moment. Other than that, I could only make out some m.u.f.fled sounds.

I could feel the breath of death go along my body, giving me a bone piercing chill. It caused me to shiver making me knock my head against the ground. Weirdly enough, it didn"t really hurt. In fact the ground was quite soft but sticky and cold.

A feeling of weakness started to overcome me. I started feeling increasingly panicked and flailed around. No matter what, I wouldn"t allow myself to go back to that place. I needed to keep myself awake by any means necessary. I even tried to punch myself to induce adrenalin. That"s when I let out a tiny breath of air.

I seemingly had forgotten to breath. Not only that, I didn"t even notice it until I almost lost consciousness. My body started back up on its own and started to spasmodically breathe in. I could even feel my empty body rising and dropping, inflating and deflating at a rapid speed. If I didn"t realize this problem before I fainted, even Satan would have laughed at me in the afterlife.

Having overcome a near fatal crisis I also noticed quite a few other things. Only at this point did I realize that I hadn"t actually been looking around. It had been so long, that I had forgotten the need to manually open my eyes. Something that was supposed to be instinctive became a manual task.

Opening my eyes felt painful. It stretched the thin layer of skin around my eyeb.a.l.l.s that had been stuck shut. I had to repeatedly blink for quite a long time before I could even recognize anything. My blurry surroundings slowly regained clarity and I could finally partially figure out my situation.

I seemed to be lying on my back in a very tall room. Although I couldn"t even see any walls in my peripheral vision, the area had to be indoors as I could faintly make out multiple glaring b.a.l.l.s of light imbedded in the weird ceiling. I couldn"t bring myself to focus on the light, so I focused on the rest.

It seemed to be a light-gray material covered in faintly glowing symbols that remind me of hieroglyphs. There were multiple rows of small symbols that seemed to represent either animals or objects. Each row was separated by a line and these rows ran parallel to each other from one end of my vision to the other. The only reason I could even notice them was because they reflected a blue glow due to the light from the spheres reflecting off them.

As I tried to stand up, I felt like I had to tear myself off the ground. My clothes, which could barely be considered rags at this point, seemed to be fixed to the floor by a dark red substance that could only have been blood. But wasn"t this amount a little excessive?

At this point I randomly thought of how it is also possible to breathe through my nose. And then I smelt something weird. I wasn"t quite sure if It was a good smell or not. I didn"t know what to make of it so I just ignored it.

Trying to stand up was a weird experience. At first I turned my body so that I was laying my stomach and ripped up an area of moss whilst doing so. I then got on my knees, pushed my body up with my arms, and then tried to stand up just to fall head first into the slightly red mossy ground.

My breath got knocked out of me due to the impact and I landed on something weird. I barely glanced at it before I fell, but it was a long darkish gray object covered in a dark red color similar to my clothes.

At this point I was breathing extremely heavily, lying on the ground with my head turned towards the left and saw a few figures enter through an arched gateway. The golden gateway stood out in contrast to the gray walls that similarly glowed blue like how the roof did.

I could make out 3 figures and that was about it. They probably noticed me around the same time I noticed them as the area I was lying on contrasted heavily to its surroundings. From above it would probably appear to be a red island in a sea of green. As they came closer, I was finally able to somewhat understand my situation.

The young boy in the front was a tall, muscular warrior with short black hair, a body full of scars and wielded a monstrous weapon. You could almost feel his desire to battle and he seemed like a person who had seen all the dark aspects of life. The two girls behind him stood in stark contrast to him.

They both wore robes, one of them a red one and the other a white one. They also wore pointy floppy hats that matched their robes and everything seemed to be laced with gold. It was almost as if they were trying to scream "WE"RE RICH AND IMPORTANT, ROB US IF YOU DARE!" which really irritated me.

I mean yeah sure I was a little bit jealous of their cool looking equipment, but that was pretty much it. The kid carried a huge a.s.s black sword that seemed to be twice his body size and the robed girls held tall intricate staffs. Similar to something that would only ever appear in an RPG video game.

They finally reached a distance where I could clearly see them. The one furthest back had long silver hair and appeared quite nervous. The other robed girl stood directly in front of her and had short red spiky hair.

At this point I was quite dumbfounded. The coincidences seemed ridiculous and I wasn"t sure if they dyed their hair based on their clothing or based their equipment on their hair. After what felt like an eternity, they finally reached a point around 10 meters away from me where they just stopped.

Big sword boy started talking and seemed to be questioning me, but I couldn"t really concentrate on what he was talking about. What I did notice however was that one of my ears was sealed shut by a solid dark red ma.s.s that I had to scratch out.

I then heard big sword boy say something along the lines of "Are you deaf? h.e.l.lo? Can you hear me?"

He spoke so fast I wasn"t even sure how I should respond which made me just stare at him. If I said no to his first question, he might just think that I"m trying to provoke him because he just asked if I could hear him.

Deciding to answer yes I opened my mouth, but the only sound I managed to produce sounded like "yeughhh".

For a moment there I panicked and thought about how annoying it would be to relearn talking, but then I realized my throat was just dry.

Misunderstanding me, big sword boy promptly asked, "Are you mute?"

Before I could even register his response and shake my head, he started to apologize for being inconsiderate. This kid was really hard to follow. Considering how it was the first human contact I"ve had since forever, I really couldn"t understand how a regular human thinks, but I"m pretty sure that he"s an anomaly. Although he did seem a little nicer and friendlier due to how fl.u.s.tered he appeared.

"Sorry for being so inconsiderate, but don"t worry I have nothing against disabled people. Do you need help getting out of here?" asked the friendly big sword boy.

This kid was messing with my thought process. Up until now I"ve only ever needed to talk to myself, but I always wanted a companion to talk to. Now I"m not so sure about that anymore.
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All these new streams of information from new sources, like smell, are overloading my brain and giving me a ma.s.sive headache. I couldn"t keep up so I just decided to ignore them and lie down. Next thing I knew, they have set up a camp around me. What is wrong with these people?