My Dear Shy - Rick's Lament

The ninth week after the remembrance...

I...  I feel like I'm starting to lose it.  I mean, at first I thought it was just a one-time thing.  I can't be more wrong.  For the past subsequent week I've been having these recurring nightmares.  Nightmares that were more morbid than the last.

The first one was unsettlingly harmless...  It started with my vision being blinded by a thick coat of darkness.  It went on like this for a while, that was until I began hearing someone screaming.  It was indistinct, but it sounded like a woman shrieking in fear.  It was reminiscent of... Tina's voice...   She let out another shrilling scream, almost as if she was in pure agony.  I opened my mouth to call her, yet no words flowed out.  Just like that, pure, unadulterated silence.  For some time I floated in the blank subspace, wondering what would happen next.

A reflection of my face then came into existence.  The skin was pale white that of a skeleton, but what horrified me the most was that my eyes and mouth were stitched shut with thin, rusty wires.   I tried to look away, though I was frozen in place and could only watch in horror as the wires slowly disintegrated into ash.  Both the eyelids and mouth remained closed even after they were freed.  I wanted this nightmare to end; I wanted to tremble; I wanted to shout, yet I was incapable of doing anything.

But God answered my plea as I finally woke up from my nightmarish prison shivering in cold sweat, gasping deeply for air.  My eyes darted around the room dimly lit by the moon's silverish glow slitting past the window's blinds panickingly.  The sheets and covers were sprawled across the floor probably due to the plausible result of me thrashing in my sleep.  My hyperventilating lessened as realization kicked in.  I laid back on the bed's headboard and assumed the fetal position, rocking back and forth.  Never have I witnessed something inexplicably horrid to the point where it'd make me cry.

The worst of it all is that that was just the first of the six...