The Ghost I Buried

Vittoria

Darkness pressed over me in thick, suffocating layers.

No light.

No sound.

No sense of time.

Only pain blooming behind my eyes and a dull ringing in my ears.

My first breath tasted like dust and damp concrete. My second burned. My third came with the realization that my hands were tied behind me, coarse rope biting into my wrists, not tight enough to injure, but tight enough to keep me su