It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that__ already come true.
Ella!_ the voice yells, but I cannot tell where it is coming from. The sound wraps around me, spreading like spilt water and then evaporating into silence.__here am I?_ I whisper again.The darkness stretches out for eternity.I take a few steps forward, but the feeling is surreal__ cannot tell if I__e actually moved or not, because everything is nothing. I feel something wet and warm slide down my cheek, and I touch the tear with my fingertips, swiping it away.Representative Belles is dead. I__ certain of that now. He__ gone. I___ I__ in the place where he was, and now he__ gone, and now I__ stuck. I__ stuck in the nothingness of a dead body, and I don__ know how to get out.My heart thuds against my chest, and I gasp for air. What if I can never get out? What if eternity is nothing more than me, alone, in the darkness? Trapped in someone else__ death.I collapse, but it__ not like I fall on the floor. There is no floor. There was the illusion of one, but as my body gives way, I realize that I__ floating. I stretch out, my fingers and toes aching to feel, but there__ nothing, nothing at all, and I draw myself into myself, hugging my legs, my knees tucked under my chin.I__ alone.Maybe when Representative Belles died, I died too.Maybe this is it.
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Ella!_ the voice yells, but I cannot tell where it is coming from. The sound wraps around me, spreading like spilt water and then evaporating into silence.__here am I?_ I whisper again.The darkness stretches out for eternity.I take a few steps forward, but the feeling is surreal__ cannot tell if I__e actually moved or not, because everything is nothing. I feel something wet and warm slide down my cheek, and I touch the tear with my fingertips, swiping it away.Representative Belles is dead. I__ certain of that now. He__ gone. I___ I__ in the place where he was, and now he__ gone, and now I__ stuck. I__ stuck in the nothingness of a dead body, and I don__ know how to get out.My heart thuds against my chest, and I gasp for air. What if I can never get out? What if eternity is nothing more than me, alone, in the darkness? Trapped in someone else__ death.I collapse, but it__ not like I fall on the floor. There is no floor. There was the illusion of one, but as my body gives way, I realize that I__ floating. I stretch out, my fingers and toes aching to feel, but there__ nothing, nothing at all, and I draw myself into myself, hugging my legs, my knees tucked under my chin.I__ alone.Maybe when Representative Belles died, I died too.Maybe this is it.
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