To Die For Something

She felt pain, and then fear, an extreme amount of fear that caused her heart to shudder and her bones to freeze. She found herself alone in a dark place, an unknown place, and she could hear nothing. It was absolutely silent here.

She got down on her knees and hugged herself, shut her eyes, and crashed to the floor, whimpering and crying silently. Then the voices came, at first they sounded far, like from a distance, but they got close quickly and it was not voices she was familiar with.

The fear gripped her strongly again, she brought her hands to her ears to block out the voices that were now screaming at her, and she screamed back that they be quiet. She screamed and shook and trashed and bolted up…

“No!” she screamed and held her hands against her ears, eyes tightly shut, she snapped her head from left to right, trashing about on the bed. “Quiet! No!”

Ryder rushed to her side and held her hand, prying them away from her ears as he tried to calm her down. “Lyra! Easy Lyra, I’m rig