There was darkness.

Not the kind that feels peaceful, not the kind that comes after a long day and wraps you in comfort. No. 

This one was Heavy and breathless. It was Cold and eerie like something had dead. I didn’t know where I was, or if I was even me anymore.

Then finally voices.

They sounded like whispers that danced in the night wind through the  trees, it sounded  soft, indistinct.

And then a flicker…. Light, just enough to outline a figure ahead of me. It was of… 

Him.

A man.

The same man I had been seeing in my dreams for the past couple of days. 

I couldn’t...