It wasn't lit and only few voices could be heared coming from it.
"Follow the light"
She was hearing the voice. Thought it's her own. This voice has awakened her several times as she was laying on the floor of the cell and now it was leading her forward. Remilia's mind was already at it's limit. The picture, the vision, came to her mind and she saw and felt the agony and pain of thousand death, she saw hundreds of people suffering and screaming in pain.
"No.. No.. Please, no.."
The lone man was standing near the comm devices that was mounted on the wall and was trying to calibrate it to make it work. Finally it switched back on and he attempted to call someone asking of what happened with the light but then light switched off and began to flash again. The other doors to other cells were closed so Remilia was just slowly sneaking towards the man.
She picked up a little iron pipe from some trash pile.
She was so close so she could her his breath.
"Die.."
The blood has covered her face as she hited the guard's head with the pipe breaking through the scull. The guard falled down on the floor and wasn't showing any signs of life. She felt.. warmth. But it wasn't enough.
The vision of pain suddenly stoke her mind and she felt down on her knees. The pain was so real... she saw and felt the horrors of all the most horrible wars.
Two figures flashed ahead. Guards passed the crossing down to another corridor. They were in a hurry and Remilia followed them.
She passed few other doors and crossings but most of the doors were dead locked. She went after the guards and the door to the next corridor has opened before her automatically. After passing few more turns she finally found those two. They were standing before the closed door and one of them was trying to open it up from the console on the wall. Another one was standing behind him.
"Make it stop!"
The one that was working with the console has suddenly saw the blood covering the wall and the floor near him. He turned around swearing.
A single shot in the dark.
What does it mean to feel the death of hundreds of planets? The scream, full of suffer, filled the corridor. The feeling was so bright that she couldn't stand on the legs again. Tear drops were running through her face. She got back on her feet trying to calm down. Her body was shaking.
One of the guards had a small but sharp sword with him, a long term KNF tradition among the officers. The tradition of the warriors of the past. She took it with her.
"Away.. run.. away.."
Remilia was moving forward and some few more guards met their death. Light kept flashing on and off so that she could silently attack and cut their throats before they could realized what was happening.
The voice kept guiding her. She was listening to him. The voice was always right.
Soon she reached out to a wide, but poorly lit passage with several doors at it's sides. The huge airlock to the next level of the station was ahead and she went straight to it. When she was half way there the light in the corridor suddenly blinked and few doors at sides slowly slide to the sides opening the cells. The cells were small. And they weren't empty. Around a dozen of people, pale and dirty, showed up. Males, Females, adults of various ages and kids.
Pain stoke again with the visions coming back. This time it was much more intense... She was screaming in pain. Stop it. Stop it!
She got to her feet.
"ENOUGH!!!!"
The blade sliced through the man's chest who approached her at arm's length.
The corridor got filled with screams and cries. She didn't heard them. She couldn't.
The slaughter didn't ended up quickly, many was still writhing on the floor in agony and their cries were cutting her mind like knives. But she was feeling their blood on her arms.
flickering light has waked Remilia up. Her eyes has opened and the 'vision' vanished. There was silence, the silence that was unbearable.
I.. can't hear. I can't.. hear the voice. Talk to me.. talk to me please.. please..
Silence.
Where are you? Where? WHERE? Return to me... I can't see the light any more. What to do?
What?
Tell me... TELL ME!
Silence.
She stuck the iron floor with her fist and the walls echoed the sound. She could not remember what happened, but she remembered the blood on her hands. The warmth.
Where are you!? WHERE? I'm lost. Empty and Hollow. TALK TO ME.
Or..
(You waked up, finally.)
Another voice was quiet, she looked around. (Not here.) The voice sounded familiar to her, but it was another voice. Familiar but different. So familiar..
WHO ARE YOU? Get lost! Get lost or... I'll kill you. Yes yes.. I want to do it now.. SO SHOW UP! Who are you!?
(I'm here. I was always around.)
WHERE! I can't see. I.. I'm loosing my mind.. DON'T PLAY WITH ME.. Because.. this feeling. I want to find you. Find you and rip your body and limbs apart.. It's a sweet dream..
(You can't kill me, I'm you.)
You're different. You're lire. I won't listen... no nono.. nonono, not today, not at any day. You won't trick me.. I just want to feel the warmth.. I want to see the LIGHT. Get lost..
(You're deceiving yourself, they are deceiving you ... deceiving us.)
SHUT UP! Shut your MOUTH!(No.)Get out of MY HEAD!! YOU'RE not the LIGHT! YOU'RE not the LIGHT!!!
(I am you. We are one.)
I can't see you! I can't! Are you a darkness? Yes? What did you said? Was it 'yes'? THEN GET LOST!
She was walking from the wall to wall, periodically switching to shout. (Do you remember? Remember their faces?)What? No.. nono no no. But..wait. The warmth? I began to remember.. I was sharp and I was.. satisfied.(oh, stop it. It was me back then. You're a lie.)
No... You're the darkness, you're the deciever.. shut up.. GET OUT OF MY HEAD! I dare you to show up.. SHOW UP. Can't you hear? My heart is beating. It beats for a kill. AND YOU WILL BE THE FIRST.(I can't believe it's 'me', heh.)SHUT UP! You can't have my soul. You can't have my body. You're a whisper of darkness, LIRE.
(No, you won't kill more, we've lost everything and fallen deep enough already, listen..)ARRRGHH, come out! COME OUT, COWARD! Come to ME, ALLOW ME to KILL YOU and DRINK YOUR SOUL! I'll take YOUR SCALP as a trophy! Just let me be Released!(You don't understand, can't understand what's going on)
Shut up! SHUT UP! GET AWAY from HERE, do NOT TALK TO ME JUST NO! NO! NO! DIE! Stop SHOUTING! Let ME GO! Let me go and I'll burn the whole world! I will TURN it to ashes ONLY to STOP YOU YELLING AT ME! Stop JUDGING!(You can't stop this)NO!
No...
I KNOW WHAT I AM! You don't know ANYTHING! You don't! Me - YES!(No, you don't remember, right?)Do NOT interrupt ME! NO! SILENCE!! You won't make a noise now, will you, WILL YOU?!! Stay quiet, OR YOU'RE DEAD!(I remember it, I'll tell you)NO! You are screaming INSIDE my HEAD, You're HURTING me! But NOW what?! WHAT?!! I'll make you STOP! You won't take me!
(You've been lost, it is very difficult right now.. to understand.)
YOU will BLEED! You're not the hero! Not the LIGHT.. DIE!
She struck the wall with her fist breaking her fingers. She began to mumble some hardly understandable phrases.
I'm gonna kill you ALL, I'm GONNA kill your FRIENDS and your FAMILY, I'm gonna TRACK DOWN your grandparents and TURN them INSIDE-OUT... liars... liars everywhere.. nobody can stop the blood shed that will turn your loved ones into a red splatter across the floor... yes... CAN YOU HEAR ME?! CAN YOU HEAR ME!!?
She slowly sat on the floor leaning against the steel wall. Tears were running down her face.
You're dead already?! I'm alone.. ALONE. Void and empty..
Damn... DAMN.. I want to kill... and burn.. I hear the screams.. SHUT UP!..
A male voice interrupted Remilia's apparent monologue and right after a soft chuckle echoed through the cell. Once the woman raised her look around the cell to either curse or welcome the new cell companion, her tears would eventually allow her to see a figure on a Kempeitai uniform standing firm few meters away from her, very close to the door. Both hands were on his back, denoting extreme confidence in the enviroment he was in.
And the grin. That hypnotic grin drawn on his face as he spoke.
"Laughing at first, crying now. How do you feel after the slaughter, Remilia? What is that void you fear so much?" He took several steps forward, silently placing himself in front of her, who was still sitting on the floor. The grin became slightly wider, now him extending a hand toward her. "I can offer you the guidance you seek, I can offer..."
He was standing right in front of her and her mind was too empty to respond. She was confused. Confused and lost in the worlds of insanity. Her inner self was trying to interfere but in the next moment her mind was filled with the familiar visions..
Visions she was seeking for. The dreams and fate of humanity. She wanted to understand it, but she was already trapped inside her own mind by the time she realized the mistake. The darkness was released. And it was searching for the guiding hand to show it the path.
And the guiding hand has just appeared, smiling. She couldn't stand, to resist.
The monster wanted to see the oceans of blood. The piles of bodies.
To pillage, to destroy, to slay.
It was released.
He knew the answer already for he was the director of this spectacle. He wrote the replies for actors and he managed the decorations.
And the answer came right when he planned to get it.