Locked in Limbo 1: A LitRPG Dark Fantasy by Nicholas Steam

Author:Nicholas Steam [Steam, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2023-01-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12 – The Cave of Hidden Stars

Aside from my friends, I sent any lingering peons back to their work and/or homes. I didn’t understand what they even did with their time, but as NPC’s, most of their actions were to give the illusion of life anyway.

I left my friends to go over and find some shade for myself. I needed time to think, but I didn’t like being alone with my thoughts.

I shouldn’t be here, I needed to find a way out of this game. There had to be somebody, a moderator perhaps, whom I could somehow contact, to let them know that I was trapped in the game. I’d been here too many days already, and though I didn’t feel any physical discomfort, though I only had awareness of this body, it had to be a matter of time before my real body began to shut down.

Unless I was in a coma or something, in a hospital, hooked up to a machine to keep me alive. That thought was depressing as hell. Maybe that was why I had a lapse in my memory, not remembering much after waking up on my birthday.

But, since when did hospitals put you in a virtual world?

I thought back to my dream last night and I felt a pang of jealousy for the life I’d dreamt, of my own castle, and though I hadn’t seen myself, there’d been a feeling that I’d possessed in that dream a potential I hadn’t been given.

That’s why it was just a dream. Better to focus on the here and now, and not something that never existed.

Aelora came over to me, approaching almost shyly, as though I might send her away.

“Mind if I join you?” she asked. She half frowned as though afraid that I might send her away. “Maybe we can talk?”

“Sit,” I said. Even though I hadn’t really wanted any company, I just wanted to think, I didn’t mind.

She sat by my side, though a few feet away, as though not quite sure if she was really welcome.

“What’s on your mind?” I asked.

“Are we… are we okay?”

“Of course. Why?”

“It’s just that… last night in the springs, I thought…” she scoffed. “I’m just being silly.”

“No, you’re not.” I reached over and squeezed her hand.

She smiled, and her eyes sparkled as she blinked rapidly. A tear escaped down her cheek. “Sorry, I’m just being stupid.”

I suddenly got a weird feeling in my chest. “You’re not. Tell me what’s wrong.”

“I like you,” she blurted out, “And I thought, maybe, you liked me.”

Wow. There it was. This was not what I’d expected from an NPC. “I do like you,” I said slowly.

“But not the same, though.”

“Aelora, we barely know each other.”

She wiped her tears away and stared off toward the town hall. She sniffed and fought for composure. “Send me back to the mines. I don’t belong here.”

I turned and faced her. I lifted her chin, to have her look me in the eyes. “I don’t belong here either. Do you want to stay with me?”

She nodded.

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