Escape to the Impossible - Original Writing :: Papers

Escape to the impractical - Original Writing Theyd been crawling for what seemed like days, or hours. How could they have? They could no longer contemplate the time, it seemed a long time agone when something as alien as time came into their lives. Even if they cared how would they know anyway? It was always dark down here, darker than anything the pair had ever known. Always on your sore hands and knees trudging through sewage pipes holding the faeces of an immaculate citys population, each of them blissfully unaware of what was going on in their own spotless backyard. Simon accidentally sniffed before a sneeze, he instantly regretted it, the smell hit him like a shock wave, and he gagged, then explosively threw up into the suffocating darkness. But nothing came out, simply a dribble of what was left of his acidic stomach juices, they had not eaten in days and were both famished and weak. Simon, are you all right? utter Jasmine, his younger sis ter, who used to be very pretty until the day they had taken her and Simon away to the Camp. Now her eyes spoke of wordless horrors and her sleep was hurt by the private tortures she had endured. Now her cheeks were thin, her beautiful blonde hair straggly and dirty, and she had bags under her eyes from the lack of sleep her nightmares produced. Yeah, in a minute. Simon croaked, his pharynx burning still from his vomiting. They carried on crawling in silence. Oh and the silence, they dreaded it, call up silence in the pitch black and then hearing the long-distance echo of footsteps, squelching through the unpleasant remains of dead rats and drunken takeaways. not knowing whether they were real or unreal and that these might be the footsteps of soul tracking them they too may be lost in the metro maze of pipes and sewers. Sometimes one of the two would try to hum a tune, but the silence like an animal instantly smothered them, until their sing