Thursday, March 28, 2019
Escape to the Impossible - Original Writing :: Papers
Escape to the Impossible - Original writing Theyd been crawling for what seemed like days, or hours. How could they know? They could no time-consuming contemplate the time, it seemed a long time ago when something as alienate as time came into their lives. Even if they cared how would they know anyway? It was always unlit d experience here, darker than anything the pair had ever known. Always on your sore hands and knees trudging through and through sewage pipes holding the faeces of an entire citys population, each of them blissfully unaware of what was going on in their own spotless backyard. Simon accidentally sniffed before a sneeze, he instantly regretted it, the tang hit him like a shock wave, and he gagged, then explosively threw up into the suffocating darkness. But nothing came out, just a throw of what was left of his acidic stomach juices, they had not eaten in days and were both(prenominal) famished and weak. Simon, are you all rig ht? said Jasmine, his younger sister, who use to be very pretty until the day they had taken her and Simon away to the Camp. directly her look spoke of wordless horrors and her sleep was tormented by the confidential tortures she had endured. Now her cheeks were thin, her beautiful blonde hair straggly and dirty, and she had bags under her eyes from the lack of sleep her nightmares produced. Yeah, in a minute. Simon croaked, his throat burning so far from his vomiting. They carried on crawling in serenity. Oh and the silence, they dreaded it, imagine silence in the pitch black and then hearing the distant echo of footsteps, squelching through the unpleasant remains of dead rats and drunken takeaways. Not knowing whether they were rattling or unreal and that these might be the footsteps of someone tracking them they alike may be lost in the underground maze of pipes and sewers. sometimes one of the two would try to hum a tune, but the silence like an animal instantly smothered them, until their humming
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