"I
can do this. I can."
I
reached for my light, but when I tried to call it to me, I was
slammed hard into the ground. My temple hit the corridor, and my
vision went temporarily dark. I struggled past the sluggishness. I
wouldn't let her win. I couldn't! I felt her come for me again, claws
digging into the back of my shirt. But then she recoiled, a screech
filling the air, and I realized I'd hurt her. How?
A
burning at my neck made me look down, and I caught sight of the
necklace Monroe had given me, the quartz shining bright. I had
forgotten it was there.
Lilith
cursed as I began to slide so fast, the stone beneath me burned my
skin. She was angry. I fought harder against the fall and glanced
below anxiously.
My
body went instantly cold.
Ahead,
the corridor simply disappeared, like a cliff overlooking blackness.
There were jagged edges in the path as if Lilith had used her fist to
pound away the stone and dirt, leaving a drop-off. But we weren't in
the pyramid, we were under it.
"That's
not possible!" I cried out.
The
shock of it numbed me. There couldn't be a cliff below ground. The
path led to a chamber, didn't it? I should see only dirt or more
path. There should
have been more dirt or more path! But there wasn't.
"Shit,
shit, shit, shit, shit!"
I
dug my nails into the ground harder, but there was nothing I could do
to avoid the fall. Visions of my dream overwhelmed me. It was
different and yet the same, fissures in the Earth, a fall into
darkness. An illusion! That's it! This was an illusion. It had to be!
There was nowhere for a drop-off to go. The laughter grew so loud, I
cringed with the pain.
"Hell,
my dear. It leads to Hell," Lilith cackled as my feet went over
the drop-off.
~Excerpt
from Ransom: Redemption Series Book II
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