We'll Meet Again

chapter 3

But... There's nothing there?

"Hello?" She mumbles while staring into the distance of the what seems to have become even longer hallway, directly at the white wall she started at.

A complete silence is being thrown at her and there's nothing that could have possibly touched her.
She turns back around, making her eyes catch something strange.

The white and black stain are gone.
Only the yellow one in the middle remains.

Full of confusion Nix lays her index finger on the only visible shadow, when she gets pulled back in the blink of an eye, into a black hole.

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She had been unconsciously laying on a hard and cold floor for what felt like just a minute.
When she opens her eyes everything is just as black as when she had them closed.
Just laying there she carefully stands up and waits, hoping anything would happen.

Like she was told to, she tries to listen for someone calling out her name or hearing anything to let her know it worked.

After a few minutes of standing in a pitch black void, she starts to think something went wrong.

"This isn't L'manburg?"
"Did I do something wrong???"

She's able to walk a bit around now. Wandering through the dark and empty world, she tries to make anything out of the nothingness.

Nothing works, nothing appears.

"Is there anybody here??"
"Karl?"
"Dream?"
"George are you there??"

But nothing is being said back, not even her own echo.
The silence is getting louder and louder as the room seems to get even darker than before.

10 more minutes of absolute silence go by.
She decides it's been enough since it didn't work.

Right when she says the words
"We'll meet again", to bring her back to reality, she hears a voice in the distance...

She tries to quickly look at who said something, but as she wants to turn around she already left that hell of a place.
Nix opens her eyes to find herself staring at the sealing of her room.

She jumps up, looks around, and quickly realizes she messed up.
"If I only stayed a second longer..."
While closing her eyes and laying back down, she tries to remember what she heard him say.

She could make out it was probably a male voice, what he said though, couldn't come to mind.
She was up in the moment and didn't listen to it enough to now remember.
Against her will she eventually falls asleep while trying to go back, to figure out what just happened.

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Getting woken up by her alarm she had set last night, Nix gets up immediately when seeing it's already past 10.
She and Nolan had agreed to go to the mall today as they both needed some new clothes.

She stumbled down the stairs to get herself some avocado toast, to then half falling go back up to get ready.
The weather was really nice today, so she soon released her sweater was going to be way to warm.

Nix throws open her closet to find the first best shirt being her red crop top.
Since it was really cute on top of her black cargo pants, she quickly puts it on, picks up her purse and heads downstairs.

Nix puts on her shoes, picks up her keys from the hook in the kitchen, runs out the back door, trough the side path to the front, and jumps into her car.

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After spending a good day at the mall, Nix gets home absolutely exhausted.
They just finished eating at Taco bell, and bought plenty of clothes and shoes.

Despite her being crazy tired, tonight she would try it again, she knew for sure.
She had to know what happened, if she could figure out what he had said and who he was.

This time, using the same script as yesterday so she could experience exactly the same, she head to bed early and tried to shift again.
She puts the same song back on and starts to count;

"..."
"95 I will shift"
"96 I will shift"
"97 I will shift"
"98 I will shift"
"99 I will shift"
"100 I will s..."

She opens her eyes to not find herself in that same hallway she stranded in last night.
This time she was standing in the middle of a big room, the walls covered in newspapers and big clocks all over the place.

Confused she takes a look around, to then discover all clocks had their hands on the same time;
09:00
A very odd time since she left reality around 11:40.

Nix walked up to a big outstanding one and put her hand up to the glass to try and open it.
She managed with pulling pretty hard to get it open, and reached inside to try and change the time.

When she touches the hand pointing at the 12 to push it forward clockwise, she hears something loudly hitting the ground on the other side of the room.

She quickly turns around to find herself, once again, looking into the nothingness.
Nothing had changed, nothing fell.

Were these her imaginations messing with her? Or was there something crazy happening she couldn't quite make out what it was?

She turns back to what she thought would be something that changed again, just like the stains disappearing, but to her amazement the clock still reads;
09:00
Fully ignoring what just happened Nix, once again, reaches out to change the time.

She grabs the hand between her index finger and thumb, but right when she starts moving it to the 1, everything goes black.

And there it is again...