Snippet #1561918

Edmund's vision blurred as he lay under the twisted metal of the burning wreckage. His brown hair was darkened by a trail of blood leading from his scalp to his chin. The adrenaline coursing through his system numbed the extreme pain he would have otherwise felt. He tried to focus his vision, only to see a massive gate standing before him. It was covered from top to bottom with strange symbols that Edmund couldn't make any sense of. The larger than life gate began to open, revealing thousands of tiny black arms that writhed and flailed about and eyes...eyes that stared into your very soul. Edmund felt a sickness in the pit of his stomach that was unlike anything he had ever felt. The writhing mass of arms lunged at him, wrapping themselves around his limbs and pulling him into the gate as a muffled scream escaped his lips. Inside the gate, infinite knowledge flashed before Edmund's eyes. The sudden flash of information was too much for his mind, or any other mind, to handle. He broke out in a fit of insane laughter and just when his sanity was stretched to its limits, it was done. All went black before he awoke. Edmund opened his eyes to see things were very different. There was no sigh of the train wreck that had been so real just moments ago. The ground was littered with motionless bodies. He lay on the ground, looking up at the sky, feeling the same but somehow not quite himself.