Alpha-hole

Shane

That night my dreams were filled with desperation, sadness, and flashes of a life, lives together that ended painfully. I don’t know what it meant, I couldn’t piece what I remembered together. The more I tried to grasp onto it, the more it became more and more vague. I know know how long I slept, I woke up with sweat all over my body. I groan and forced my eyes open. I’d felt like I had lived a thousand lives from the time I had closed my eyes and opened them. I was unsure of where I was, who I was, and what I was supposed to be doing.

A cave.

The rushing water was the first thing I heard and saw. I was in the cave, I’d run away with my sister, and left her behind. I still lay on my stomach, my arms below me to hold up my head. I pulled myself to a sitting position and the walls of the cave swayed. I gasped out in pain as I felt everything all at once. It was the first time I’d felt the physical pain since that night.

It was crippling.

I took a deep breath to try and steady myse