An Encounter Beyond Understanding (event)
I steady my breathing as I look back into the face's eyes, and stand up from the dirt with what confidence I can muster. Wispy tendrils of fog spew from its mouth, snaking across the water's surface towards my feet. I start to step away as they come closer, but decide against it, leaving myself at the mercy of the unknowable. As the wisps touch my skin, a cold breeze rushes across me, as if I were taken into the watery depths. Images of my life flash before me- moments of selfishness, violence, lust, and greed. Some I hardly recognize, others burn in my chest as if coals were left within me. The tendrils snake further up my body, reaching to my chest where they spiral over my heart. I look down at them, an endless encirclement spinning deeper and deeper into my chest, and back at the pale eyes in the water. They're harsher, angrier than when I first looked upon them.
More memories fly across my eyes, the things I have done to get me to where I am today. The tendrils suddenly tighten around me, yanking me hard to the ground as those swirling on my chest pierce between my ribcage. I try to scream in pain, but no sound escapes my lips as I'm dragged into the water. I can only watch my companion's sleeping forms as images of blood and depravity fill my mind to the seams, and the sharpened mist reaches into my heart. I will not feel remorse for all that I have done, but the spirit that's pulled into its watery depths seems intent on making me experience hell. Now fully submerged beneath the surface, I see what lurks beneath the depths—a mound of bones.
And I am to join them.
This is the end...