Beneath (2014)
“I’m dead, she thought. I’m drowned and dead, floating in Roseroot Pool. What happens now? Can I feel? Can I move? What do I do?
She moved a hand experimentally and felt what seemed to be grass under her fingers. As she lay looking up, the darkness resolved itself into different shades, and she found she was looking at a night sky through a lacing of branches, black on black; no moon or stars in the land of the dead.It was cold, being dead. The cold had crept through her flesh and into her b...ones, slowing her blood.My heart’s still beating, even though I’m dead, she thought. And I still need to breathe. And I’m cold.
She sat up, hoping that the land of the dead wasn’t going to be dark all the time. As if in answer to the thought, a light flickered and caught through the trees, a little way off to her right. It looked for all the world as though someone had just lit a fire.Jess got to her feet, a bit unsteadily, and walked between massive trunks towards the light.MoreLess
She moved a hand experimentally and felt what seemed to be grass under her fingers. As she lay looking up, the darkness resolved itself into different shades, and she found she was looking at a night sky through a lacing of branches, black on black; no moon or stars in the land of the dead.It was cold, being dead. The cold had crept through her flesh and into her b...ones, slowing her blood.My heart’s still beating, even though I’m dead, she thought. And I still need to breathe. And I’m cold.
She sat up, hoping that the land of the dead wasn’t going to be dark all the time. As if in answer to the thought, a light flickered and caught through the trees, a little way off to her right. It looked for all the world as though someone had just lit a fire.Jess got to her feet, a bit unsteadily, and walked between massive trunks towards the light.MoreLess
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