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Who did this?

How long had we been here?

How atory? A place of in-between, a deplorable existence where only the worst went to pay penance?

We couldn’t possibly be alive Could we?

A flickering light in the corner kept the vampires of the crypt at bay, but it offered no war into odforsaken catacombs

I stared fuzzily at the shape of a man cocooned in blankets Only, he hadn’t ift--no, er worked

There was sohts, no fears, no pleas

I didn’t want to ader alive However, I had to try to bring him back from the dead I had to reive up, even though slipping off the cliff beca every minute "You--you still a--alive, K--Kes?"

I never heard his reply

The moment I finished, I fell into a stupor that lasted God kne long My energy flat-lined and I drifted into dreah the forest on Wings

The next, I was back in that hated roo Jas inside her heat

The next, I was shivering with ice running away froreeaker Each hour, I slipped a littleNila in the heinous world I’d helped create, I would just let go and disappear

I want so fucking much to disappear

I wanted freedoh to live with such soul-crushing tor my pain became No matter how delirious and wracked with tre die

I can’t Not while they’re alive

It was e that’d gotten aith murder for centuries

Only once I’d balanced the scales of right and wrong could I relax and let go

Only once I’d saved the one who’d saved oodbye and slip into the void

My heart occasionally stuttered, out of sync, out of power--alive in I forced it to do the bare essentials, keeping rave I was in the coffin ready to be buried, but I wasn’t a corpse just yet

I squinted in the lacklustre light, following the contours of my brother’s body

He still hadn’t moved

Time had an odd context down here It could’ve been decades since I’d asked if he was alive, or only seconds

I could turn to face hi to see a blood-flushed body, only to co was possible on the cusp of death

My dying lungs did their best at working through ash and ain "K--Kes…"