Cynthia Clark

Annihilation Series Cynthia Clark

They say your life flashes before your eyes, as death takes you, and I watched. I remembered so much of the story. Silent laughter as I remembered my first drink when I awoke at the cleansing. It had taken so long to get it, so long to find, but the hot 2 liter Pepsi hit the spot. Oh, those ugly creatures eating that raw meat and a chance meeting to the man I fell so much in love with. Icarn, Tandy, and their mama. The settling, the joining, so many things, but everything came back to Hero. Hero's eyes, his laughter, his sorrow when he realized what he had done. I had forgiven him that. That had not been him, that had been Bones, and he was the reason I was here now. Why? What had I ever done to that demon that he would wish hell on me? I know demons try to gain souls, but why mine? All this. Everything. The islands and people he destroyed, He tried to destroy Hero, He had already tried to get me into hell one time before, and now he had me. Now I was here and I had no way, nor means of escape. Then it came to me. He cared not for Hero, nor any of the others. He had not tried to take their souls. He only wished to use the people that I loved and loved me for his evil purpose. He wanted me and me only. My laughter took me on the brink of insanity for I had finally figured out who Bones was. Torn between laughter and tears, I had lost everything and he knew this. But why? Why was he still punishing from beyond the grave? It seemed he had held my soul through my life, and now he wished it in death.