merangel, something different Options

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Sleeping drawn up tight in the corner of the cell, my legs pressed against my chest, my arms wrapped around my knees clinging tightly for some warmth.. and when my dream breaks for only a moment I wake to hear a voice and see a soft light far off. I can't make out the words of the speaker but, before I can ask what was said, the dream, more a prison than the walls that surround me, takes hold of my mind again.

I'm in the water once more, struggling for the surface for more than a few breaths... my arms are pulling me upward while a chain yanks me back downward. I never drown, but I never get another breath of air. When I stop fighting, I see her. An angel with seaweed hair and eyes that glow with a light that burns my own. She doesnt like me to look at her but she won't let me go. When I try to ask for freedom, I get no answer. I rerealize, like I have so many times, that I can't speak underwater and start to fight for the surface again. I never make it but the water chains start to loosen... and for a minute I can breath in the fading abyss.

I'm awake and I'm sweating dirt. Light pours into my cell, the door is open.. It always is during the day time. I let go of my knees and let my legs relax. I lay there for some time, untrusting that I am really awake. When I see Tamara walk past the door and yell at me to go shower, I smile. Getting up, I answer, "You should to the same. Your smell woke me up. Though I'm grateful to escape my nightmares, Tammy dear, I fear your body odor just might kill us all." She doesn't hear me because my voice never comes out more than a rasp; a painful consequence of damage to my vocal chords.