Chapter 13

AMBER

My eyes flew open but they closed almost immediately from the pain that was coursing through my body. The agony was simply indescribable. For a moment, my whole body felt numb. I managed to steady myself back but I was breathing heavily when I did. 

It felt like a thousand needles were jammed to my back and every single touch had shockwaves of pure torment sliding its way up and down my spine. It felt so terrible. I struggled to catch and steady my breath because breathing heavily also felt like a very heavy labor. 

I listened intently around me, and all I could hear was silence, and it was as dark as night. I felt for the blindfold but it was not there and there was debris of sand on my face. I wondered where I was, I wondered if I was dead. 

Was this what the afterlife looked like? I asked myself, trying to make a sense of where I was but I couldn’t make anything