#Chapter 212: The Golden Knife

Moana

One moment, I was in the interrogation room with the police officer sitting across from me.

“Ms. Fowler?” he asked, standing from his seat with a worried look on his face. “Are you alright?”

My eyes were wide and my hands were shaking. I was standing with my back against the wall, feeling as though I couldn’t get a full breath into my lungs. The room felt as though it was closing in on me, and I felt trapped inside like an animal caught in a net.

And then, suddenly, I felt my knees buckle under me. I fell to the ground, and then everything went dark with only Edrick being the very last thing on my mind.

When I woke up, I was in a dark room. In fact, it was pitch black… But when I held my hands up in front of my face, I found that I could see my own hands perfectly. The room itself was black, like a void.

out. My voice felt thick and heavy. There was

few minutes

I

It felt like an eternity, but also a split second at the same time. Was I sleeping? Was this just a strange dream? It felt too

I remembered being in the interrogation room. I was answering the police officer’s questions, but it started to get to be too much, and I started having flashbacks when he started asking about the specifics of what happened in the warehouse. No matter how hard I tried to stay focused and keep myself level-headed, I couldn’t stop seeing Ethan’s gun in front of my face. At one point, I started to hyperventilate. Yes; that had to be it. I hyperventilated and lost consciousness. Surely any minute now I would wake up and would be safely in Edrick’s arms once again. I never should have agreed to go down

didn’t wake up. A long time passed, and I stayed in the black void. I moved around, or at least I felt like I was moving

was like to be dead, I thought to myself, then it was awful and lonely. The thought of being

in my mind or if it was real, and if someone else was here with me. But when I started to see Michael’s face materializing

didn’t speak. He just sneered at me, and eventually the rest of his body came into view as though he was loading

— with an ornate

a black void to a rainy cliff with trees on either side. I felt a gasp catch in my throat and I whirled around to see a

said. I whipped back around to see that he was closer now. The knife was raised, ready to stab me. When I turned around, the tip of the knife was nothing more

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