Haunting-Adeline

Absolute carnage is consuming that cave, but I don't worry about that,
trus ng that no one that par cipated in this ceremony will make it out
alive. That was a very clear order I made.
This world will be be er off without them.
I only make it about ten feet before an explosion blasts through the cave,
sending me flying. Time slows as my body hurtles through air, sound
becoming inconceivable.
And then it speeds again, and my body is colliding into the stone altar.
The oxygen is knocked from my lungs as my back hits the corner of the
altar before I collapse to the ground.
Loud ringing reverberates throughout my head, but it’s no louder than a
whisper when the pain is deafening.
For seconds, minutes, hours—all I can manage is to lay there as
confusion and pain swirl around me.
Groaning, I crack open my eyes, squin ng through the dust clouding the
area. I can’t hear a goddamn thing, but as the dust se les, the body parts
strewn across the place tells me how loud it is.
Bodies are running around chao cally. There’s a man dragging himself
towards the steps, one leg completely missing while part of the railing
protrudes from his side. He must’ve been on the top floor and go en
blasted through it.
Along with several other people, some of them missing limbs, others just
covered in blood and seriously injured. Cradling some part of their body as
they process the u er shock of the explosion.
The ringing recedes, and an onslaught of screams filter in.
I groan again, forcing my body into an upright posi on as I try to figure
out what the fuck just happened.
My head is fuzzy and my vision swims, the pain flaring brighter with
every movement.
Jesus fucking Christ. What the hell happened?
A person is charging towards me, their tall, lanky body emerging from
dust clouds and bloody limbs. Their mouth is open in a shout, and it’s not
un l they’re nearly a foot in front of me that my eyes process what I’m
seeing.
It’s Jay. Why the fuck is Jay here?
He should be behind a computer desk somewhere.