A Shade of Despare

Darkness

My first ever memory was complete darkness. Maybe a little dot of white, but other than that, absolute darkness.

I would occasionally hear voices, I would dismiss them because "voices" were a regular thing. If I was ever bored, I would listen to them, they sounded like everyday conversation, "hey, how was your day? I had this great plan for a game we could play! I...I love you.." What's weird was that it was the same voice for me, a male voice that got a little deeper whenever I felt like listening to it.

I later found out that I was in a place called "The shadow realm". As it's name says, complete and utter darkness. It's not so bad once you get used to it. 

There was some good news, I wasn't completely alone! There were other creatures like me... 

What am I exactly?

I would ask this question to the others but they didn't know the answer to that one.

"I wish something interesting would happen" I would hear 'new ones' say. 

Sometimes we would play games that the voices came up with, my personal favorite was "two truths and a lie", I enjoyed guessing which was the lie. We had our own games too though. The most popular one was "weapon summoning", the rules went something like this; You summon a weapon that is unique to you, you'd fight your 'challenger', whoever emerged victorious would get some sort of prize. I almost always won this game. my weapon wasn't like everyone else. Some would get a sword, or a dagger, I've even seen a bow and arrow one time.  No, my weapon was shadows. You'd think "well how would shadows be a weapon if you're in complete darkness?" let me explain. I have the power to manipulate shadows, or more specifically, darkness. I can move it to my will, shape it into any form I desire. So I mostly won any game involving weapons. I got the nickname "Shade" from my strange ability.

We never had a sense of time so when we got tired, we would just sleep. I mean, we would have to tell the others first so we wouldn't be disturbed. But other than that the darkness would get very quiet. I never slept much. I was always in my own thoughts. wondering about what we are, why we're in this darkness, what are the voices, and why do the people who have been here a longer time than I remember not speak much about their experiences? 

So. that was how I lived my life in complete and utter darkness. Until I didn't