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Prologue
The heart is fascinating It puh the veins Feeds us Starves us It’s steady e’re steady Is erratic e’re erratic When it goes silent, everything inside us stops, stills When we’re alive, it’s the fuel to that life It drives the adrenaline Soars it through us Makes us able to do oes for e’re afraid Fear It’s as potent as life and the more afraid we are, the faster our hearts beat
Right now,to explode out of htning bolts slap against the earth, barely able to turn s, are drenched andit difficult to see But I can make out the tips of pine trees and a low in the distance like fire
Glass is scattered aroundainst hts shine on me from somewhere and blood trickles from my forehead into my eyes
I don’t kno I got here, where here is, or who I a in the middle of the road My ars cut up and sprawled out in an unnatural position There’s soes that are splitting open o, but I can’t find the will to unfold ers fro about letting go sends ainst my chest, faster, faster, faster I’m scared… alive… scared… dead I can’t tell which one
I feel dead
The thought sends a strange calradually slows, the cold beco ? I’o Do I want to die? Why does it feel like the answer is yes and no?
I atteure out where I ae to slant ret it when I’ht Is that death?
Blinking several tihts of a car parked in thein the middle of the road and there’s a car just off to the side of me Wait Was I hit by a car? Is that why I’m here? Why can’t I remember?
I atteet toany part of it Someone help me! I open my mouth to screas I shutrhyth Water rivers over me, icy, cold, but I’ht be dying…
“Can you hear h the stillness, but I’m uncertain if it came froh… I think…
With effort, I openfickles as the clouds thin And one of the headlights is blocked out by so in the leftover drizzle of rain
“Who’s… there?” My voice is hoarse, feeble, helpless
The stranger doesn’t respond, walking toward h puddles With each step, h ain The cold Feel the blood running down et up and ht above ht hitting the back of them, but my heartbeat quickens with every second they stare at ?