I’m so lost. I can’t move. It feels like I’m drowning, but I can’t stop it from happening. I can’t see my way out. The nothingness, the weightlessness, the fear, the black. I can feel my throat burning from my silent screams. Why can’t anyone hear me? I try to reach out and grab onto something unable to lift my arms. I don’t know what to do. I feel nothing, I see nothing, I hear nothing. My mind doesn’t understand what is happening. With all the power I have inside me, this is far beyond me. So, like Ruth told me, I give in, I give up trying to control it, there is nothing left but to let the darkness take me over. I am not sure how long I am asleep. But my family held my funeral for the village to attend, and I was laid to rest in my family’s crypt beside Anisah.
It was not a long servi
