Darkness once again shrouds your vision. The dark warbling resonating in the damp confines of your tympanic cavity. Th-thump. Th-thump. Th-thump th-thump th-thump, thump thump thump-thump thump-thump... Your heart turns over like a mad beast, its ventricular modulations pumping blood through your body, where cells hungriy absorb oxygen from that primal red river, that creek in your capilary beds from which life grows.
Like an ancient steam engine, cylinders in your legs pump and throttle, your aortic excretions powering your jagged locomotion down the hallway. One foot there, one foot here. Right, then left. Right, then left. Left, then right. You're keenly aware of precisely every motion you make as adrenaline floods your body. Your pupils dilate and you become ultra-aware as you begin to prepare for some as-yet unseen threat that your subconscious has percieved.
Ooooooh shit. Shit.
Shit shit shit.
Shit. Keep it cool. Come on, almost there, almost there, almost...
You've passed the open doorway on your right, faint voices and soft tidal laughter abound through its hard right angles. You're almost to the end of the hallway when you sense a change in the wavelength, the ambient hum drying up. In its place is the sound of chairs moving along the ancient wax molding of the linoleum floor. The voices are coming closer, and you hear the shuffling of feet. Whoever was in that room just a few seconds ago is now leaving it, entering that unshielded and unseen void that is left behind you as your eyes progress forward with the motion of your body.
A madness overcomes you. Do you dare look? Your heartbeat is nearly drowning any unfortunate bit of sound that tries to reach your tympanic membrane, that wants to ring it with its own oscillations-- that wants to make you aware of what is happening in the world. Your vision narrows even more as your breathing reaches a dangerous rate. Throughout your body arterial chemoreceptors note the decreasing oxygen levels as your adrenaline-crazed cells eat up snatch up every last bit of the precious substance, leaving the hemoglobin of your red blood cells barren and depraved. Your breathing increases, your arteries dilate, your heart beats faster. Your vision is turning red now as you start to enter the beginning of a hypertensive crisis, panic flooding you as you start to lose control once again.
Go.
No, don't.
Go.
Stay, look behind you.
Go.
Look behind you.
Go.
Behind you.
Go.
Behind you.
Go.
Behind you.
Go.
Behind you.
Go.
Behind you.
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Topic: A day in the life [SG] (Read 3735 times)