The world feels...
Strange.
Quiet.
I can't hear anything.
No-
I can hear, but it's...
Muffled.
What I can't do is feel anything.
It's as if there's no movement in the air, not even the slightest stirring, no heat or cool, like the moment is frozen completely.
Yet.
I'm outside.
In the open.
I...
Can hear.
A scream.
I turn toward it, because there's nothing else for me to do. Maybe if I do, I can understand what's happening and where I am.
Lucas kneels in the distance. May is knelt before him.
May...
May?
She looks.
Different.
Older?
I can't pinpoint it, but I do know that she's holding Lucas' hands and she's screaming something I can't understand.
And-
It doesn't matter, because if Lucas won't help her, then I will.
Just as I take a step, I hear a voice.
An unfamiliar voice.
Someone speaks behind me.
"...So there you are."
It's a soft, soothing voice. An empty, hollow voice.
It makes my skin crawl to hear.
