Black the Tides

Chapter 1: Lily-1

Chapter 1: Lily

I’m stuck in a loop, trying not to look at the ghost of a girl with golden curls and hazel eyes.

I’ve been here before. I know what’s coming next.

Shadows skitter across her face, darken and split the skin. Her childish features contort in a scream. Darkness wells in the corners of her milky eyes and spills down her cheeks in a continuous inky stream.

She smiles, slow and empty.

“We’re coming.”

Then the nightmare repeats.

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