Chapter 186: Light In Her Dreams
The dreamworld was a strange place.
There was a band and she was the lead singer. It was a kingdom and she was the queen. It was an army and she was the general.
But most of all, it was an execution and all eyes were on her. That was where Emily was. Alone, on a stage that would serve as her death bed. With nothing but a sea of grass as spectators.
A noose was fastened around her neck by phantom hands, and try as she might to turn her head this way and that. Emily could not see the face of her executioner. She could only feel their cold breath against her neck, and their even colder hands, getting her into position. In the next moment it did not matter that she could not see them.
What mattered was that she could not breathe. She was hoisted higher, and higher. The noose tightening around her neck, the rope digging into the skin there. She felt the bones of her throat grinding against each other, cartilage snapping in half at the pressure.
She tried to scream. No sound came out. Her voice box having been the first casualty of the noose.
’I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe. Please do not let me die like this,’She thought desperately. Her legs swung wildly, kicking at the air as she tried to get free. Her hands going from clawing at the rope behind her neck, to trying to get it off from around her throat. Nails breaking against skin and rope.
But her struggle was useless.
As she was trying to get it away. The rope was getting tighter, and tighter, its hold on her unrelenting. Her head feeling as though it was about to explode.