Chapter 1 “Unknown Glass”

Ever since I was a boy, I had this… Darkness, I didn’t know what or why it was, it was just… There. And This darkness followed me everywhere. No matter where I was… And I was scared.

Until… I was in my room, like how I always was, and then I heard a knock on my door. 2 knocks. I wasn’t expecting anyone at the time, It confused me. So I went to check.

“What do you want?”

I ask as I’m expecting an answer… No response. But an– Invitation?

I picked up this… Invitation and open it. I was not expecting anything crazy, but a– what?

“’Wake Up’?”

The Invitation had the words “Wake Up” on it, was this some joke? Who do those punks think they are to play a joke like this to me? I didn’t know what this meant but when I read it, I then felt tired, so tired.

When I woke up I could hear this voice. It sounded like a girl. She sounded like I was under water, the more she spoke, then the more I could hear her.

“Wake up..!”

“Wake up!”

“WAKE UP! Please!”

I could hear her now.

“Huh?”

I asked.

“Oh–! Thank god you’re awake!”

“I thought you were dead!”

She said,

“Where… am I?”

“I don’t know.”

“Man, my head hurts…”

As I said that I realized what happened, I blacked out and then I was in a room. No an elevator. But as soon as I thought that my head started hurting badly.

“Here, lay back down.”

When she said, then it felt like the elevator we were in responded, It made a noise, BRING The noise like if it had stopped at a level in a building. Then the doors opened, clearly we weren't home. The doors revealed an open landscape with a night-like time and trees, the air felt thick, like if I was on a mountain followed by a chill breeze. It was kind of nice, and slightly strange. I don’t think I felt this way before, maybe because it was only me and a girl, or maybe someone was watching me… 

“Where are we?”

She said,

DUN DUN The elevator dings twice.

“Welcome to my escape room!”

The enercom says with excitement,

“Hello?!”

“Who are you? Why are we here?!”

I ask.

“Don’t be rude to your host…”

He says while chuckling.

“Please, I just want to go home!”

The woman asks.

“Good luck, when you don’t even know where home is.”

“You two are ‘special’ no one on Earth has felt what you’ve felt.”

“Darkness is what you call ‘home’ when it tourchers you, makes you feel like you’re worth nothing.”

He says confidently.

“How do you know that?”

I ask

“I… Study you…”

“Now GO!”

Immediately, the elevator fills with smoke. We start coughing violently, and then we leave the elevator

“What did he mean?”

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