6 Nov 2019

Darkness by Simon Boytcov

I open my eyes and the only thing I can sense
is a cold touch of the floor. I can’t remember how I got here or where I actually am. It’s pitch dark and smells musty and dank. “Some kind of cave?” I think to myself. In the background I pick up some weird growling sound coming from the left, or maybe right, or behind me; it’s hard to tell really. I try to scream “Heeeey, anybody out there?”, but once the sound echoes out and grows silent only now do I realize how huge the “caverns” in which I got trapped are. I check my pockets, maybe there’s something useful there? “Ah, finally some good news, I have power of light with me!” as I take out the flashlight out of my knee pocket. I turn it on and wow, I can only see the floor in range of maybe 10 meters around me. “I can let this get to me” I think, “Now that I can at least see even something ahead of me, I must get out of here”. So I just walk straight for what feels like hours until finally I hit … a flat black wall? “What the hell, what kinda cave is this?” I blurt out loud, but there nobody to answer of course. Well, no use just standing around, so I continue moving, but now along the wall. I walk, and walk, and walk, my legs are now getting exhausted, but I walk and walk and walk. I hear that weird growling sound that was in the background all this time getting closer. And now after another long stroll I see it. There’s a wall you’d only see in sci-fi movies and there’s a speaker at the top of it, from where that noise was coming. I notice the door has a bump in the middle and it just begs pressing, which I do. With a loud screeching sound, it rolls to the side and there seems to be another one just like it further in. I walk past it and the door me closes, and after a brief pause, the door ahead begins to open. And with this opening, comes a blinding light and the sound of the outside world. I walk outside and it all finally makes sense. A giant screen with a following text can be seen now: “Congratulations, you’ve completed the challenge”. This all was just a challenge for a couple hundred bucks that I took, thinking I’m good enough to beat it. And hell yeah, I was good enough! I’m never doing anything like this ever again though. Never ever.

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