❝SHE BURNED BRIGHTER THAN YOUR FUTURE ❞
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Liana Holly's life was a mystery, a puzzle and in some aspects, a down right disaster. With the disappearance of her parents when she was barely seven years old to the discovery that her family was not as sh...
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LIANA was standing in a darkened room. She sat up from where she had been lying on the ground, her body feeling strangely light and weightless as she drifted to her feet. She looked around at the cavernous place and noticed how there seemed to be row upon row of sparkling orbs on shelves. The shelves seemed to go on for miles, stretching out in every direction. Each orb had a label beneath it, neatly printed in small writing. She took a step forward nervously, the sound echoing around her, her heart rate escalating.
There was a strange ringing in her ears as she began to walk, picking up speed as she attempted to find her way out of this maze. She couldn't figure out where she was, she was lost amongst these mesmerising objects that reminded her strongly of the crystal balls that Professor Trelawney had sitting upon shelves in her classroom.
She paused as she saw a strange platform a few feet above her and took to climbing the side, noting curiously how she couldn't feel the pain when she cut her finger on the side on the rock that built the platform, despite the scarlet blood that dripped from her finger. She stood on the top of the platform and glanced around. It was a very strange place this.
As she walked she passed a strange smokey veil that stood in the centre of platform and she couldn't help but peer closely at it. She reached out, as if to touch it, to wave her fingers through the fog that filled it, but she found she couldn't get her fingers close enough to touch it, no matter how much force she put into it. Furrowing her brow in confusion she tried to kick the veil with her foot, but again, she couldn't get anywhere near it. Huffing in frustration, Liana continued walking to the edge of the platform.
She had just managed to scramble clumsily down the other side of the platform when she first heard it. It was like a slithering sound, like the sound of a giant snake travelling along the rough stoned floor.
Liana felt her heart jump and automatically she quicked her pace, twisting and turning down the different rows of glass orbs, hoping to escape this noise. However the noise only seemed to get louder and Liana could feel her panic rising. She didn't know where she was or what was happening, but instinct told her to get away as fast as physically possible.
Before she knew it she was sprinting down the rows, her red curls flying around her face and her hands sweaty with fear. She finally reached a clearing where the rows ended, like she had reached the centre of the maze and she clapped her hands to her ears as the slithering noise became deafening.
Liana screamed as she dropped to her knees but she couldn't even hear her own voice over the noise. She jerked her head around, desperately trying to find a way to stop it.
Just as she thought the noise was going to crush her ear drums altogether, the noise suddenly stopped. Liana carefully and slowly moved her hands away from her ears and looked around through glassy eyes. But before she could make another move, she felt a dull pain exactly where her heart was and she fell to the ground, her body convulsing, before everything went black.
