I'm in Survival Hell, You're in Party Heaven
Time passed, slowly at first, one hour, then two, and with it came hunger and thirst and the air growing thinner, all of it bearing down on their already frayed nerves until the hallucinations started.
Dad suddenly shot his arm out and pointed into the dark, his voice cracking with terror. "Stay back! Stay back!"
What he saw wasn't an empty room. It was me, dozens of me, drenched in blood, reduced to skin and bones, rust water still dripping from my chin. I crawled out of the walls and fell from the ceiling and surrounded them from every side.
Mom saw them too. She reached out into the air with both hands, tears and snot running down her face.