Chapter 19

Coming out of the darkness was different this time.  There was no gradual fading in of sound and vision, no gentle awakening or slow reality.  This time it just slammed into me at force, a cascade of colors, lights, sounds, and movement that caught me off guard just as I was settling into the peaceful dark that belonged to the Eye.  I was moving… not just moving, I was running!  My footsteps loud on the ground, air rushing past me as I moved, and my clothes straining against my body as my arms were swinging wildly back and forth.  The calm early morning peacefulness of Nicole’s apartment had become an alleyway between two buildings.  The smell of rotting food and rat urine poured into my nose and I was breathing it in deep as I...

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