Craving Absolution (33 page)
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Authors: Nicole Jacquelyn
Tentatively, I took a step backward and was about to take another when movement at her side caught my attention.
A flash of light.
A glint of metal.
Shrieking, I turned to run, but above my cry heard a booming crack. As if I’d been punched, my head snapped backward, knocking me off my feet.
Then I was falling and people were screaming. There was so much screaming, it was all I could hear, and yet it sounded far away, off in the distance.
“Dorothy!”
Voices echoed all around me.
Hands grabbed at me.
A face hovered directly over mine.
I knew that face, I knew her, she was my . . . she was . . .
Tears streamed down her cheeks and her mouth was moving, but I couldn’t hear what she was saying. I couldn’t hear anything. Why couldn’t I hear anything?
I tried to ask her why I couldn’t hear, but my mouth wouldn’t work.
Another face, a man with pretty blue eyes, appeared beside the woman, wildly shaking his head back and forth. I knew him. I couldn’t remember who he was or how I knew him, only that I knew him.
Like the woman, he too was crying and his lips were moving, but still there was no sound. I tried to lift my arm, to reach out to him, to . . .
My vision began to blur, distorting and warping the faces around me. I blinked furiously, trying to see, trying to understand.
Something awful was happening, I knew that much, something horrible. And these people, whoever they were, I wanted to help them.
But I couldn’t move, I couldn’t hear, and black spots floated over me, quickly growing larger, taking over my vision.
I was tired. So, so tired.
I just had to . . . close my eyes . . . for just a second . . .
Darkness enveloped me.
And then, there was nothing.
Not even darkness.
Craving Absolution
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