Into The Darkness: Written In Blood Pt. 2



Darkness swirled around me like liquid. I try to focus, but my eyes refuse. My vision blurred, I couldn't see. There was something very wrong going on, but you refused to allow me to explain. The suffocating darkness, it overwhelms and drowns me. I drown in this ocean, void of light, void of caring, void of anything that even resembles something...human. I rub my eyes and try to focus. I open my mouth and try to take a breath. Nothing happens, nothing works. I try to scream, but no sounds are made. I'm trapped in the absolute silence. I'm trapped in the void. There's no way out. There's no way out.

There is no way to escape the blood. There is no way to escape the darkness.

 I start to panic again. I close my eyes tightly, I try to force this nightmare to leave me. But it just gets darker and darker. It gets more intense. I feel cold. There is no heat here, there is no light, there is no warmth in this void. Somehow, I can see myself now. I watch as I sink further and further into this ocean. I'm lost. I'm lost between here and eternity. I'm a part of this darkness now. I fuse with it. I become one with it. It becomes everything that I am. I open my mouth again to scream, but cannot.

Let me in. Let the darkness in. We are one.

 I can't fucking take it anymore. I force myself to scream, I can hear my panicked voice struggle through the darkness. I force my eyes open and grasp onto a tiny piece of my sanity that remains. When I come to, I'm sitting in my office, staring out the window. But the rain that's coming down? It's just rain. There's no blood. I'm not screaming. There's no darkness, as the lights come back on. Am I going crazy? I try to think about you. The one with the mark. The first of many. There will be more. I know this sounds crazy, and I know you won't believe a word of it, but I know that in the very depths of my soul...there will be more.

You don't have a soul.

 Of course I have a soul. You know I have one. I was born with one, a child of God. This soul is mine, given to me at birth. I'm innocent. I'm innocent. I'M FUCKING INNOCENT.

But you killed that girl.

 What? No I didn't. I couldn't have. I was in bed last night...

Didn't you go for a walk? Didn't you need to clear your head because you were having trouble sleeping?

 No, of course not. I was asleep all night. Besides, I could never hurt anyone.

Are you sure? I know what I saw.

 You didn't fucking see anything because that never happened. I wasn't there. I didn't carve up that girl. I didn't kill anyone. I have a soul. I am incapable of harming another!

But there was that one time...

 That was different! That was self-defense! He had it coming! He came at ME! ME, ME, ME! I had to save myself!

You've changed.

 NO! I'm the same man I was before! I haven't changed at all! I'm not a killer!!!

Then why is there a bloody knife in your backpack...?

 The darkness...it swirls around us all. For some of us, it's just out of the corner of our vision. Just out of reach. But it's always there. It whispers in our ears, it waits for us to weaken. It takes us...just like it took me, and the Others...

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