Page 2 of Wings of Lies
Am I Lucille?
“Yes.”
The answer to my thoughts didn’t come from the body of light but from the shroud of shadows behind her. From a pained male voice.
He heard my thoughts.
From the ache that strangled his word, I sensed he knew me. They both did, but I didn’t know who they were.
A question teetered on the edge of my thoughts.What did I want to ask?I glanced back at the glowing speck of light. The thick slime pressed against the wispy shadows while the encroaching walls of black closed in on the white radiance.
Are you here to save me?
Her light flickered.
The Void darkened.
“Hang on!” she yelled, her voice wavering.
She walked closer, her strobing light doing little to stop the thick sludge.
“Lucy, I need you to open your eyes. The poison won’t destroy you if you open your eyes.”
My eyes were open.
“Your actual eyes! Wake up!”
Her blaring tone echoed as I tried to understand. She made sense. But I forgot why. The Void had stolen that answer a while ago.
The shadowed man stepped toward her and her weakening light. The inky sludge followed him, its malevolent presence repelled onlyby the faint wisps of gray and black emanating from his silhouette and the feeble glow she wielded.
“We can’t keep this up for much longer,” she whispered.
Why didn’t that scare me?
It should. I knew it should. But it didn’t.
The slime attacked, and she blipped out of existence.
The speck of light in the middle of The Void flickered, surrounded by a swarm of shadows that whirled protectively around it. However, the speck was no match for The Void, which loomed like a leviathan of darkness. I closed my eyes and waited.
“Damn it, Lucille! You don’t get to give up! Fight it!” the man bellowed.
Shadows and flames of purple and white attacked, their ungodly heat searing into The Void. I screamed as they burned away the cage around my mind.
Something eased inside me, and I opened a pair of heavy eyelids, expecting to see light, but I was only met with more darkness.
I tensed. But this was… different. My chest rose and fell, and a throbbing pulsed in my ears. I twitched my fingers against the cool press of metal beneath my skin. I scrunched my nose.What the hell was that smell?
Urine? Sulfur?
Who cared? This felt... real.
My eyes adjusted to a tiny crack of light seeping through the border of a door. The yellow glow slashed across my arms and chest, illuminating my dim surroundings.
Walls of damp concrete boxed me in, pressing against my naked feet and bending my neck at an awkward angle. I didn’t fit. On the table or in this… closet?Was I in a freaking closet?
I tried to plug my nose from the wretched scent, but something tugged on my heavy arm. I reached my other arm out to investigate, only to feel another tug in that one, too. My eyes traced from my shadowed shoulder to the tiny strip of light near my elbow.
