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Prologue
A thick fog sed me in darkness
"Help s wouldn't carry me
"Please help ain Fear pushedwas too dark I was blind I had no light to lead the way
The dense fog thickened and poured down s I couldn't breathe, I couldn't move I couldn't help her
"I am afraid I am so afraid” she sobbed Her words whirled in the heavy wind, lashing across my face My eyes closed, unable to cope with the pain in her voice
"I can't get to you," I shouted as the heavy fog forced round My hands raked at the hard dirt as I fought to get free
"I can't I can't Go on I' away
Panic filled oodbye
"No!" I screaernails snapping under the pressure Nohappened My heart pounded in rhyth thunder overhead Cold blood trickled through et free I couldn't get free
Scalding tears filled oodbye," I screaoodbye!" The skin on lass, the sharp edges slicing deep into my flesh
"Protect theed I could hear the defeat in her voice She was giving up She was slipping away
“No! Wait!” I tried to scream, but no noise came from my mouth I clawed at my throat, but I couldn't make a sound
A light appeared in the distance, but it was too far fro She was leaving and I couldn’t say goodbye
"Wait!" I silently screaed under the weight of the black fog on this cold ground, my frantic voice muted, my body paralyzed
The fog grew thicker and thicker and the light up ahead diray "No," I silently cried, "No!"
Relentlessly, the fog closed in, reht from view and with it all my hope
She was gone…
Suffocating with grief, I fought for breath But there was no
Rage filled tears trickled down my face as I lay here, defeated I tried to close my eyes, I tried to push the pain into the back ofme from the inside
The fog pushed down harder, wrapping htly in its hold
Darkness was consu my soul
"Goodbye," I oodbye"
Jerking upright onhard at the dreaot a phone call”
Wiping the sleep fro to erase the dream that haunted me My hands were damp with sweat, but I just wiped them on my pants, kicked my feet off the bed and made my way down the hallway to the phone