Something drew me out there.
An ephemeral whisper, a phantom from beyond my senses goaded and beckoned to me.
I was powerless against its ethereal seduction; to the promise of something wonderful and incorporeal. Images flashed at the forefront of my mind of hot coals and darkness. A burning path stretching into the unknown and unknowable.
A recognition of something incomprehensible came over me. A trigger that activated something deep and primal. A chain reaction, a domino effect like a reactor at the beginning of a melt down.
At first I thought it an echo of a dream or a memory but that wasn't it.
My body felt heavy, my skin clammy and cold.
My bed bore the sweaty imprint of my unconscious silhouette, yet I had no fever. I felt no sickness. In fact, I felt invigorated and energized. Suddenly and impossibly, an eruption of energy surged through me. My skin and muscles were ablaze with sensation, twitching in a rhythmic spasm. With clenched fists my mind and body unified under the immensity enveloping me. I felt strong and indomitable. It burned the fog from my mind and focused it like a blade's edge.
Then the whisper came once again.
"Come to me."
A voice as cold and ungraspable as liquified gas.
Lilac settled in my olfactory and I tasted cold steel.
Hopelessly entranced I turned to the door, its handle ice cold.
I turned and pulled it open and revealed a dark abyss. An empty void of total blackness occupied the space where my home once was. Its umbra infinite and pure and beckoning. I felt no fear, no confusion. My eyes fixed on a point somewhere beyond, my resolve true.
Then I felt them, the coals.
Before me the burning path stretched and stretched, snaking and weaving its way into the darkness. Geothermic heat radiated a blistering red and fire licked my bare skin - yet it did no hurt upon me.
With a resolve I had never felt I took my firs step - my senses keen.
The life I had known was gone, perhaps the very world itself.
All there was, was the voice, the darkness and the path.
My true journey begins.
I might expand on this at some point if I feel like it.
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