The Harmony Divide- Never Alone by Dominick Gerard

Author:Dominick Gerard [Gerard, Dominick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Dominick S Gerard
Published: 2019-04-05T16:00:00+00:00

Jenn

Curled up in a ball, her knees to her chest and arms crossed, Jenn wiped a tear from her cheek and looked at the woman next to her.

They sat together on the dirt-covered ground of the school playground in silence except for the muted crying sounds from the other woman. Jenn watched her closely. She had laid down on the dirt ground in a fetal position. Her whole body shook as she sobbed, her mind lost in the traumatic memories Jenn had shown her.

Jenn let the poor woman cry for several minutes. They had a little more time to work with, but it would run out eventually. Right now, in the waking world, they had hit the pile of corpses and settled near the top. Her clothes hadn’t ignited from the fire yet, but her heart was still. The only thing keeping them alive were the limited resources from the woman’s brain activity. It wouldn’t take long for the fire to start consuming them and her brain to shut down from a lack of oxygen and blood flow. Then it would really be over.

Blackness danced on the edge of the horizon. It encircled them at a great distance but would close on them like a tightening noose. It was death. When it reached them it meant the young woman was dead and everything was finished. Jenn’s stomach tightened at the thought, but her feelings of sorrow for the woman overrode her fear of the darkness. She rested her head on her arms.

The time in these dreams was relative. It felt normal, slow even, but when measured in real world time, things happened here in milliseconds. Jenn didn’t know how long they had, but it was unnerving seeing that blackness close in on them. Death was coming, steady and unstoppable.

Jenn sighed, gathering all her internal strength and composure to speak with the woman beside her for, possibly, the last time. The thought made her hollow.

“After the crash I was a… difficult person to be around. I barely spoke and I avoided human contact as much as I could. It seemed like all the joy had been drained from the world. I thought all I had was my work and I used it to distract myself from my pain. Fortunately, I had a goal to work toward. Even though the goal was practically impossible, I tried anyway. I tried for years. I studied and calculated and planned, but there was just no way I could see to achieve it.” She lifted head off her arms and looked forward. The young woman was still on the ground, but her sobbing had lessoned as she listened. “The whole time I tried I felt miserable. I ate little and only slept a couple hours a night. I had a singular goal in my life and nothing else mattered. Something changed all of that one day. In the blink of an eye my life was turned around and I had hope again. The goal I had been working towards for so long was in reach.

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