In the deep recesses of your mind you hear a child's laughter, and you are transported back to a forest, the trees tall and dark. You can hear the sound of birds chittering above but leaf cover is so dense the sun barely penetrates. There you are following the pattern on the ground left by the sun. you leap from the darkness into a single beam of light and look up. Making the observation that there is a hole in the canopy of trees that is allowing the sun to break through.
Your fathers voice echoes and you follow it. Suddenly the forest ends and there is a Giant rock face towering in a semi circle around a small pool.
Your father is in the water beckoning. The water of this pool sits in a natural rock basin, algae and sunlight work together to make the water turquoise and warm. You wade in, the sensation of water making you shiver. How clearly the line between wet legs and dry torso seems to you.
That's when you see the black. The turquoise water ends and a cavern opens up going deep underneath the rock face. Like the forest, there is no light down there. Just a deep unknown, you can feel that same unknown in your chest. Tightness.
Your father sits on the edge of the drop, his legs splashing carefree in the blackness. He reaches for you and and that tightness blooms into a scream.
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