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The Asylum - 06 - Remembrance

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Finally, an update. This is part of an ongoing story, so you may want to check out the first ones.

01 - Silence [link]
02 - Demons [link]
03 - Torment [link]
04 - Reaching [link]
05 - Restless [link]

Part 6

As soon as I entered the tunnel beneath the stairs of the Beaufort Asylum I was enveloped in darkness as tangible as fog. I fumbled at my bag to find the torch I had brought with me and felt the familiar shape in my hands.

I flicked on the torch and emitted a cry of surprise and disgust. Before me, centred in the beam of light, was the ghastly image of a dove, nailed to the wall of the tunnel. Blood trickled down from the steel nails piercing it's outspread wings.

A hand clutched my shoulder and dug it's fingers into my shoulder. The person it belonged to lifted their mouth to my ear and moaned agony and despair.

I brushed their hand off me and leapt back against the wall. The person, or, should I say, ghost, sauntered on calmly towards the end of the tunnel, away from me, white satin skirts rustling the dirt on the ground.

As she turned back to look at me my mind was filled with visions of a smiling couple - a beautiful woman and a proud looking man. The man's face transformed quickly into the visage of a beast, with eyes full of greed and sadistic pleasure. Then crimson spilled down his crisp, white shirtfront and the woman was holding a butcher's knife, blood spilling on her dirty, patched clothing. She was grinning and laughing as she stabbed him repeatedly.

The vision faded like smoke and I saw the woman in her full wedding finery. She nodded.

I took my camera and captured that image. I will remember it until the day I die, along with the lesson such visions bring with them.

I can feel it now. The end is in sight. The secret, the anchor holding the spirits here is ahead. The exposure to the light of day will exorcise these demons and angels from their earthly prison.


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i loce them all