The Emptiness

We sat in the emptiness, my mind spinning a mile a minute. I couldn’t seem to wrap my head around the concept of where I was, or how I had gotten here. As if the memories that had once filled my mind had simply slipped from existence.

In this place, wherever it was, time seemed to stand still. There was no way of knowing how much time has passed, if any had done so at all.

All I knew, was the Elanora and the white light that filled the air around us. A dark sense of fear pressed in on my chest the more I tried to grasp our existence here. And a part of me instinctively knew that if we stayed here for much longer, we would never leave this desolate place.

Elanora lay against my side, her head tucked right up against my hip. She had told me how she had been lured away with food, when a large man had forced her into a dark bag. The next thing she knew, she was in a small room and remembered a man with large, black eyes. As she spoke, her eyes had widened with fe