Lost 10

Lost 10 I slip in and out of bitter blackness, and even when I am mostly unconscious the pain keeps me from resting fully. My bones hurt, as I lie under the darkening sky, thrashing feebly from side to side trying to find warmth amid the dank mosses. My teeth chatter as the fever rages [...]

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Lost 9

Lost 9 The sound of the water gurgling over the rocks is lost beneath the thunder of my own heartbeat as I stare in shock at the little building. I’m not sure what I feel; fear and hope fight each other for supremacy over me but their effects are just the same. My knees wobble [...]

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Lost 8

Lost 8 The wind shifts the branches above us and the moment is gone and the starlight with it. I stand very still, waiting, in the darkness and after a moment or two where all I can hear is the broken wheezing of my enemy, finally I hear the crunch of dragging footsteps as it [...]

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Lost #7

Lost #7   Every sense becomes heightened and my nerves begin to twang with adrenaline. Very slowly, I make myself sit up, legs coiled under me to spring forward if I need to. I open my eyes as wide as I can but there’s little but uniform velvety darkness, and no more than the occasional [...]

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Lost #6

Lost #6    The change in terrain has spooked me a little; I feel like I have moved beyond my territory and into that of another creatures. I feel vulnerable without trees I can scale if danger threatens and with nowhere secure to sleep, I am worried whether I will sleep unharmed in this place. [...]

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Lost #5

Lost #5 During the days that follow any memory of my life before the forest leaches away, until I cease to remember what it felt like to have a full stomach, to be comfortable and clean and to have any sense of who I am. Here I am a strange animal, walking on two legs [...]

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Lost #4

Lost #4 There are no paths. All around me, endless shades of green, with some brown and red and orange as counterpoint, and no opening, no indication that anyone has ever come this way before. I sag against the trunk of the tree I have just climbed, the memory of those distant mountains burned into [...]

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Lost #3

For part 1 see Lost #1 For part 2 see Lost #2 Lost #3 I sit until my bones become weary and the grass becomes cold and damp beneath me; the glow-worms slowly flicker and fade and I am alone. Around me the trees softly sough in the night wind and I shiver. I am not [...]

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Lost #2

Lost #2 The fall is so long I seem to cease to fall and the vertiginous feeling of speed vanishes to be replaced by one of drifting. It makes no sense at all as the sensation of plummeting had made my stomach lurch and heave and my soul seemed to curl round itself like a [...]

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Lost #1

Lost #1 “The air is heavy with the cold dank smell of ancient brick wet with condensation and mildew, and touching the walls I feel the surface slick with moisture and the passage of countless hands feeling their way along this light-less tunnel. The only sound is that of my ragged breathing and the occasional [...]

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