Tales From The Deadcat

[carlfatal]

After a long, long time...

A small room, no windows, no lights, absolute darkness...

Luci Tomori finds herself laying at the ground, fully clothed, she feels dust between her fingers and frostiness around. The Deadcat - a dream out of reach, Carl, her man - out of mind. What did happen, where is she?
After a while she tries to stand up, but her knees feel like ice, her arms like rubber. Her eyes still open she can´t see anything but she feels a presence at her side. Could it be Eris?
Her lips taste bloody, a taste of iron, a well known feeling, if she is unsure and bites her teeth into her flesh. What happened to her?
"Godess", she whispers - but no answer.
Slowly she tries to stretch her arms, she is freezing but she has to do anything to be sure, that she is alive, that this is no dream.
"Eris", she asks again, but the room around her stays quite, not one simple noise to hear. "Where am I?"
Nothing, only the icy air and the dust is, what she can feel. Slowly, very slowly she sit up and cross her legs to get a safe position. Her eyes are not able to break through this darkness, so she waits till her body comes back to something like life. She feels no pain, no fear, although the situation should scare her.
"Whoever there is", she says, "whoever you are..."
Again there comes no reaction. Eris can be quite evil, something we all know, but away from that Luci does not believe, that the Godess herself is here. This presence beneath her feels strange, more alien than anything.
"Whoever you are, you cannot frighten me. But i am not willing to wait for a nothing..."
But this isn´t true, and she doubts to sound serious to the presence she feels. After some minutes of silence Luci begins to crawl over the dusty ground, touching the surrounding environment with her freezing hands till she reach something like a wall of metal plates. Could it be a room inside a ship, inside a station? But she doesn´t ask only to get no answer. Minutes after minutes are passing, then she feels a gap under her fingertips. Following the line it seems, that there is a door.
"Am I imprisoned?", is her first thought, cause she can´t move anything and she feels no handgrip. But she has no clue, why someone should confine her. The last thing she can remember is, that she was going to bed aboard the Deadcat, her home.
"Okay", she says, trying to sound convincible, "what damn game is this, i want to get an answer, i have the right to get one. I did nothing to become a prisoner, what the hell do you play with me?"
Like she suspects, nobody answers, so Luci continues to explore the invironment with her fingers. After some while she is sure to be in a very small room, but exept the gap she was able to feel there seems not to be another way out. If she would have any tools in her clothes, she would try to open this door mechanically.
"Hey," she says again, " I know, that I am not alone here, whoever You are, You can tell me, what You want from me. This is not the kind of joke I like..."