Ten: First Shift

First Shift

Ten: Elijah

All I can feel is pain, so much pain that I’m whimpering from every shift and jostle I feel from being carried. Everything, all of a sudden comes to a stop as I hear a voice in my mind. ‘Open your senses. Let the moons light soak into your body.’ I open my eyes as I see I’m laying on the ground staring up at the full moon as its light shining down on me. I have this feeling that my clothes are too heavy, scratchy and uncomfortable. I start to tear at them as a feeling starts to well up inside of me. When I finally feel my body being bathed in the moon’s light, I feel a wave of calmness wash over me.

I let out a sigh of relief until a wave of excruciating pain rolls through my body. My bones breaking as it rolls through me. I scream so loud I’m surprised that my throat doesn’t bleed. Rolling onto my belly, my back arching as my spine feels like its splitters and reshapes itself. That is when I hear whining. Through my pain I see the thr