It was quiet. It was as if death itself had stopped time with its bony hands. I could feel the dull boom of my heart and the air flowing through my trembling lips. I could smell the steel and blood spilled into the air. I could feel my blood dripping into small droplets down my neck. I could feel the warm breath of the monster whose paste was ripening, as if in a bloodthirsty smile, an inch from my face. I could feel his sharp, nasty breath and I felt the cruelty on my skin from his eyes. I could feel the coldness on the wall behind me, and the huge heavy paw that pressed me with tremendous force to it. I could feel the warm blood flowing from my belly, where the monster's nails had been hammered. I could feel every drop of lifeforce draining from my body and I couldn't move.
Somewhere far away from me called my name. Or so it seemed to me. I heard the sound of metal and the noise of a two-body collision. Through my cross-eyed gaze, I glimpsed the faint teeth of the monster in front of me in the dim light and I heard his quiet intense growl. I tried to move, to stand up, to push him away, but I couldn't move a millimeter. Every bit of force was flowing from my body, along with my blood. My eyelids weighed. The power was leaving me.
I could feel nothing anymore. Neither the pain, nor the cold, nor the severity. I didn't see anything. I had fallen into the soothing caress of the darkness. The world shrunk and disappeared. Only I was left in an eternal, infinite and dark space.
,,Who are you? "- said a woman's voice
I looked around. I saw nothing. Only the darkness.
"Who are you?" I asked again
,,Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? ... "the darkness repeated after me as an echo.
The voices rose around me, repeating and repeating ... the question ... the question I had no answer to. It was as if the voices were mocking.
,,Who are you? Who are you? Who are you?..."
"Who am I?" I asked quietly. No one answered my question.
No one repeated it. There was a silence in that I could only hear my shortness of breath. The seconds went by and the answer did not follow. I curled up in a ball and wept ... out there in the darkness ... small, inconspicuous, invisible. A voice so familiar to me rang out in the silence and the hairs on my neck trembled. The darkness began to slowly recede. The voice repeated my name ... my real name. He banished the darkness with the heat of his voice. Light lit everything around me and I let myself be led away. A smile blossomed on my face and tears filled my eyes as he continued to utter ... my name as a prayer.