"Where am I?"


    No answer.


    I shivered and looked around. It was cold. So cold.


    "Where am I?!" I screamed this time.


    But it was just dark... exceedingly so ... eerily so.


    I let out a huff of air imagining the smoke that formed in the cold.


    “Where am I?” I whispered this time and moved my face downwards then it struck me.


    “Who am I?”


    I shuddered fearfully and I screamed.


    “Help me! Help me!”


    I stood up and froze. ‘I stood up?’ I questioned myself. Then I looked down and saw…nothing.


    I couldn’t see a thing. Then a thought struck me. Maybe I was blind? Blind….


    “Help me!” I screamed again. Then I started to run. Where was I going? I couldn’t see. Nothing was chasing me.


    Yet… I ran. With all my might. All I could think off was ‘I need to get out of here; but where is ‘here’?’


    Slosh.


    “Huh?” I said beyond baffled. Just now there was a sound.


    Then I felt the wetness of my feet. That was it. I fell to my knees and screamed.


    “You motherfucking son of a bitch! Get me out of here!”


    Then came the eerie silence for a while. Suddenly I felt pulled back and thrown on something. I tried to get up but I couldn’t. I was dumbfounded.


    “God is deaf….” I mumbled. ‘God? What is that?’ I thought almost immediately. ‘How did I just say…I know this ‘God? Before that motherf***ing??? What could that be?’ I just said words I didn’t know. But how could I say a word I don''t know? it was almost on reflex.


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    “God?” I said a bit louder can before.


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    “God, can you hear me?” even louder.


    Still silent and dark. I need answers, something. I sat up…I could now sit up? on the darkness and brought my knee to my face. Then I felt the floor with my fingers. It felt smooth and a bit soft. Soft? Soft?? Soft??!!


    ‘Why is the ground soft?!’


    “-th”


    I swiveled immediately to where that sound had come from. All I could see was darkness. But I definitely heard something. I waited but nothing again. Just as I would give up…


    “-beth”


    ‘beth!’ I repeated in my head. ‘A name..?’


    “Beth” I said out loud.


    No reply. Just silence. Then a loud yell.


    “Elizabeth??!”


    I jumped in fright. It was still so dark. Why?!


    I gave up on finding the voice and lay on the soft ground. Then I opened my eyes……huh? Could it be my eyes were closed the whole time?! I felt the sudden urge to kill myself… then I realized even if my eyes were closed some light could still seep in. The light threatened to blind me as it came in all at once.


    I shut my eyes tightly then gently and slowly opened it up. My first view was white and blurry with a few figures at the sides. I turned slowly to the left then to the right.


    “Huh?” I said dumbly. I could see… people. These people were humans, right?


    I looked down at my blurry self and brought my hands to myself. I am human, too.


    It was more of a question than a statement.