Through the depths of my mind, insanity has reached me. Bringing it's boil, blistered hands closer to my throat, trying to strangle what little sanity I have left.
I awoke again for the third time, but not beside my lovely Armadel, the key-holder to my heart. No, this time I awoke beside a wooden barrel full of empty-eyed fish heads. The stench was tremendous. It filled my nostrils with such a putrid and unwholesome smell that I began to feel nauseous.
What happened to my beautiful Armadel. Where had she taken off to? How had I awoken beside a barrel of fish heads?
As I strained to push myself up and off the platform that hung ever so slightly over the wooden barrel, I realized that I was no longer in the warm, comforting and quiet town of Crown Tooc. The buildings were darker, more ferocious. They stood twice as tall as any man and their roofs hung in a sad and dreary way. There were no windows to look in or even out for that matter and the doors were built nearly a foot above the gound, with no steps to lead up to them.
I then turned my eye and laid them upon a strange wooded area bordering the town. These trees were like nothing I had ever seen. They seemed to grow upside down. Their branches dug deep into the soil, leaves and all, but their roots stretched far out into the sky. Yet, the most peculiar thing about them was not that they were growing against nature, but that they were colorless. This explanation is not within me. I can't describe how I saw a colorless tree. But it is true. This strange wood had no color, yet I was still able to see it. There was no depth to the trees and I could not see through them.
To see such a thing could bring oneself to gouge out his eyes just to keep from seeing such a horrible sight. I could feel my mind fighting with itself. The logical side screaming for an explanation even an imaginative one, and the imaginative side screaming for some sort of logical explanation, yet neither side could give the other a single thought to this phenomenom.
I could bear this no longer and tried to satisfy my eyes desperate search for a scrap of reality. Again turning my head, this time toward the sky, I screamed in horror at the sight that I saw.
I'll try to rake my brain's sanity in order to piece this terrifiyng description together.
The fear had cut me deep, causing me to weep and tremble. I fell to my knees, praying and hoping this was just a dream, a bad nightmare. Nothing more.
I opened my eyes again and I clenched the soil beneath my hands. Then taking a deep breath and with an odd feeling of uncertainty I looked up through gaping and tear filled eyes. Straining to look past the clouded blur. I wiped away my tears and desperately tried to take in what I was seeing. Desperately trying to understand what was going on. Looking toward the heavens I saw different variations of blue and purple hues. I saw blazing, furosious flames, twisting and knotting as they strained to reach the infinate ends of the depressed sky. Looking past the hellish flames and saddened sky, I saw two eyes filled with blood, overlooking the world below.
That is when I realeased an awful sound from my lips. I can not say that I screamed or yelled, because the sound was so much more horrible. Eventhough it was obvious to me that the set of eyes could be nothing more than two planets trapped in the unceasing rotations of this worlds solar system. It was still as if they were targeting me filled with rage and damning me to hell.
I soon felt a tremendous fear grab hold of my muscular body once again, but this time I felt myslef slowly being crushed as if the life was being squeazed out of me, torturing me with unbearable pain as the end grew nearer. Much like that of a snake as it crushes the life out of it’s victim and then swallows it whole. My chest was swelling, the muscles tensing, and my lungs shrinking. It was becoming difficult for me to breath.
