Page 24 of Sapphire Scars

I could be free if I—

Stop it.

Wedging a fist in my belly, I rode out the sadistic urges.

You need to get out.

I needed sunlight to banish this nightmare.

I needed open skies to resurrect me from this crypt.

I need…

I need—

Blood.

And pain.

And her.

I crashed against the wall as my floodgates smashed wide.

My teeth ached. My senses heightened. I lost myself to a creature with no name, no rules, no master.

Ily.

I have to find Ily.

I’d made the mistake of walking in darkness.

Of killing in darkness.

We were one and the same now.

Bonded by all the bad things I had done.

While Masters raped and celebrated, I stared into the black, and the black stared back, and it was over.

It opened its jaws and swallowed me down.

I sank into its belly and…ran.

Threading myself back through the chasm, I scuttled like a crab, sideways and breathing hard.

I had to get away.

I have to get the fuck out of here!

I wriggled and burrowed, desperation rising, claustrophobia clawing.

Desperate to taste fresh air.

Gasping for freedom.

Panic.

Fuck, panic.

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