"What? a pit?" He asked me quizzically, standing beside the girl trying to figure out how to respond
"Yeah, its freezing when you get close."
Looking behind me was now a man pushing a bed towards me, on top was a girl continuously rocking and sobbing and a lamp almost falling over however behind stopped by the girls duvet. What a sight.
Once the others finally reached me, we saw with the newly acquired light that it was a pit that was squarely shaped, perhaps 2-3 meters wide and likewise for length with no hints about its depth.
"Shine the lamp over it"
Heeding 3's command, I picked the lamp up from the bed and moved it towards the hole.
"Ill go check on the deep sleeper"
"Deep sleeper?" I asked
"the last one to wake"
"oh."
and so I was left alone with this blood stained woman, a lamp and this... pit? or shall I call it a hole.
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Ah, I see now. My hands will never reach the top again... the pinnacle has past and there is no end to the sufferance I face. Even my own screams sound distant now, I feel like my breathing is getting more frequent and the lack of footing is insanely scary. Would some call this justice? There's nothing to think about but why I'm here, eternally falling. My bloody fingertips burn from the friction of trying to find some kind of wedge here, although I know deep down even if I do there's no where but down to go.
The pit became green for a second intervals and a buzzing sound faintly brushed my ears coming from the top of the pit, did those bastards survive? While I'm falling to uncertain death?
How did he find out? it's all 1s fault, that fucker tricked me
Ah, I see now. My anger is false and instead its sadness of never reaching the top again, realising the pinnacle is now but a dream stemming from my sufferance.
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It's been some time, and we have discovered 3 major things
4 is not asleep, but instead a corpse as reported by 3
3 and 2 has both been in situations like this before making me the outsider
And im being lied to, that much i can certainly tell.
Right, allow me to explain. After I took the lamp off the girls bed, I shone the light down the hole and I couldn't see the end however I did notice engraved words in a foreign language around the side. Right after this discovery 3 shouted in horror and told me about 4s death, which sent 2 on a incoherent ramble but from context clues we both agreed that she killed him; later on finding out while inspecting his body his trousers were down so our leading theory is possible self protection from the man.
The man and I sat on the rug near a desk beside his bed and the 4th man corner, the far left corner. Speaking over the wails from the centre of the room we discussed how to deal with 2 and the engravings I've discovered which is where he revealed he's well versed in the language as this isn't his first time finding himself in a far land after falling asleep although he's never seen a murder before.
Once confronted, she finally spoke to us and revealed this is her 4th time in this dream like world which ill call Asphodel after the Greek mythos. and now you're all caught up. Yay am I right.
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We are all having a meeting, and now that 2 is being coherent the situation feels a lot less.. dangerous? She's less of an enigma at least.
"So 4 attacked you while you was trying to escape the room?"
"Whos 4?"
Her eyes twinkled due to the light of the lamp and her tears making a perfect combo, but damn she's cute now that I see her face. She wore a countenance of innocence and purity that enticed me and 3, polar opposites in terms of personality.
"ah i named you all based on when you waked up in order, I'm 1 you're 2 and he's 3."
"Okay then.."
Silence filled the room, worried she had forgotten about my initial question I almost asked once again before being cut off with a response
"I was walking around the walls, searching for a door or something... which is when I felt a hand latch on to my legs"
The rest is uh graphic, but she confesses to murdering him with the lamp that's on my side of the room and placing it back before going back to bed, trying to hide from the guilt by sleeping her sins away.
All of us went silent, sat on the lavish rug with the lamp in the middle of us making some sort of a circle. No one spoke but no one looked awkward, all of us seemed to be analysing the situation.
3 spoke first
"1.. right? show me the engravings near the pit"
"Ah, sure. 2 come along so we can use this lamp"
My gaze bounced off her face as I turned away, a slight slip up of her innocence and purity was blurted upon me. A look of pure anger and cunningness swiftly covered up with a frown. No reason for 3 to know about that though, just got to watch my back for a while...
After the longest 20 second walk of my life, we reached the pit where I pointed to the engravings where me and 2 watched 3 squat down, eagerly awaiting his translation
"I believe it reads 'Eternality for the sinned' or forever judgement if you read it in lowercase"
"Upper and lowercase make a difference?"
"Yes, I was taught that the hard way during my first experience"
His face turned gloomy, accompanied by a cold hand touching my arm.
"What is it 2?"
"I think it means someone needs to fall down the pit for us to escape, a sinner explicitly."
Her eyes escaped mine and pranced along my chest before turning towards the 4th bed, staring at the dead body.