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Alouette Smith

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Necroarium

Submitted to Contest #279

And just like that, I’m conscious again—no light to welcome me, no song to soften the return. No need to adjust my eyes; they’ve stayed open, still searching. I take in the surroundings through what little sight I have left. The world wears a thin, scarlet veil, my vision deteriorating with each flicker of awareness. I make out the outline of trees in the distance. We’re trekking down a road—desolate, or maybe just unfamiliar. Hard to say how long it’s been since I was last awake. I try to take stock. I can’t touch or move, but I feel the we...

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