Into the Void by Amanda Frame

Author:Amanda Frame [Frame, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780999831113
Publisher: Amanda Frame
Published: 2018-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 31

JOHN

I woke up the next morning and it took me a minute to figure out why something felt off.

I was wearing clothes, and I was clean.

What in the hell?

Had I gotten dressed and forgotten? No way. It took me forever to fall asleep. I would have remembered. I checked my calf and stomach. I still had the weird silvery scars, so yesterday definitely hadn’t been some vivid nightmare. It was like I went to sleep and pressed a reset button.

Maybe that was exactly what happened. I scrubbed the sleep from my eyes and sighed. Just one more mystery to solve.

I went to the gun room and looked out the window. The bodies of the dead monsters were gone, a trail of dried blood leading behind the convenience store, as though they had been dragged. I shuddered. In my mind, something bigger and scarier had taken the opportunity for a free meal. I had concluded that the Leeches didn’t need physical food, but maybe I had been wrong.

The bloody heap of clothes I’d left outside was gone too, although I supposed it was possible that it had been swept away with the carcasses. I was grateful to not be half-naked and dirty, of course, but this was just too weird. I stood up and examined the blanket. The white camo was smeared with blood. I shook my head, confused.

A few weeks ago, my buddy Andy had showed me a computer game he had just gotten. The player controls a marine who goes around killing monsters and if you get injured enough, you die. But then if you have another life, you re-spawn, good as new, and get to start again.

It felt eerily similar to that. Except instead of dying, I went to sleep and woke up fresh as a daisy. I pulled at the hem of my shirt, creeped out. But the more I thought about it, it started to make sense. It was hard to forget the image of my dead body. I’d been wearing the same clothes, same hair, same sandals. Like I was a projection of what I had been right before I crossed over.

This held true with the one other similar experience that I had. I had told my parents a head wound was from falling down the stairs, but it was really when my physical body had collapsed after I accidentally separated from it. But unlike this time, my body was alive and waiting for me when I was ready to get back into it.

I, me, it. I kept thinking of my physical body as a separate entity than myself. But I guess I had confirmation of that, since my body was dead and I was still here. Alive. Surviving.

There were still so many unanswered questions. I felt like a physical body. I bled and slept, but didn’t have to drink or eat. Well, not food anyway. The thought of my fingers touching the foul cloud that rose from the dead mantis made me shudder.

So I was something.

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