Dawn
Falling into the darkness felt like a slow, inevitable descent into nothingness. The pain that had racked my body before was gone, but the emptiness it left behind was almost worse. There was nothing to hold onto, no ground beneath me, no light to guide me. I was floating in a void, weightless and lost.
If I could scream, I would. For this was worse than dreadful nightmares.
I was alone and falling in a way that felt like my very essence was being suctioned out by a huge vacuum. There were times when I felt a twitch. Like an anchor that pulled me away from the darkness. It only lasted for a few seconds though.
I had given up. I only wanted whatever this was to end. I wanted the silence of peace.
And then, suddenly, there was a jolt. It was like being yanked back from the brink o
