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Fear filled --and all I wanted was to back away froain, his eyes calhts "I heard the wretched crying of your soul, and I have si I cursedinto the teh to be fair, I never could have predicted this…

"Uh…" I began, unable to shake how bizarre it felt to be talking to this spirit "You’refor help… I’m just onaardly in the air as the spirit continued to surveyupward, out of the entrance He cocked his head to one side, his sculpted brows knotting in a frown "Why are you afraid?"

I didn’t answer I was beginning to feel ’s presence with each moment that passed My instinct was to hurtle away in the opposite direction, but I found myself rooted to the spot I simply couldn’t just back away Not yet I needed to knoho and what this was

"What are you?" I asked

"An agent of destiny, some call me" He’d reached within feet of me now His arm moved and his hand landed on my shoulder To my shock, I could actually feel him His touch… it was firm, on my shoulder How is that possible? "While others call htened, then his other arripped me by the upper ar?"

"Co on "

Who’s we?

He was pulling le but, as I atteh hi but air

He looked back over his shoulder, and as I followed his gaze, I caught sight of another being just like the ate Bizarrely, he was dragging behind hih as he neared, it looked led again to break free, however futilely The being holding me hauled me toward his companion… and the coffin His co toward me His hands wrapped around my ankles The two of them carried me to the box and laid me inside as easily as one would set down an infant in a cradle They let go of me once they’d positioned me at the base of the coffin, but before I could zoom out, they slah the walls of the box, but I could not There was a narrow, verticalof glass that trailed down the length of the box’s lid When I gazed through it, it was to see the snowy sky above Then I caught a gli the sides of the box They lifted it, and then with a lurch that flattened ainst the base of the box, the view outside beca but a blur The coffin shook violently froh the tunnel walls?

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I couldn’t see where they were taking edthe coffin’s as like looking through theof a washing machine at maximum speed I could barely even make out any distinct colors, let alone forhter than it should have been if ere hurtling through the vacuum

It was a bumpy ride, and if I’d endured this as a human, I was sure that my skull would have cracked by now from the amount of times my head made contact with the coffin’s walls This box was like the one Julie had trapped an to slon The view out of the glass beca bashed about so h for the view to come fully into focus, I wondered if I’d finally lostwater It was h we’d entered the center of soain, dropping in what felt like a free fall I was jolted away froainst the glass again, the coffin was still surrounded by water… only ed, but instead was still and calm The lid of the box faced what I assu surface of the water and a few faint trickles of light--ht

The box continued sinking deeper into whatever reservoir of water I’d crashed into before there was an upward pull--the being hauling azed out, I could only see one spiritthe coffin The same copper-haired man who’d been the first to touch me The other uess when

The spirit’s body--eht in the murky water--te the container higher, and then he positioned the box upright When he ain, it was to see that he’d liftedat its side As I gazed around the boat, ere floating on some kind of vast lake, enclosed within an expansive cavern The ceiling was so high, even straining es of the lake, and the walls of the cave were rocky and uneven The spirit planted himself in front ofthean to row