Depths-BEN and Reader

Depths
BEN & Reader


   You know those times you loose track of time and space? Those moments of lost reality, where you wake up out of your thoughts and realize the world around you is ahead? I just had one, but.....it was different then the others.


  I know you expect me to be vigilant when playing with you, the games are fun. Though, I do get tired of CoD after a few hours. It's just, I was here, then I felt myself slipping. Like, my feet lost contact with the ground and I just started to fall back into this darkness.


  There was no fear, no moment of horror, just this airy relaxing free-fall. Then, I went under. The darkness was water, actual water. I could see the rippling waves of blue above me, a few air bubbles floating up and up to the surface. It was slightly cold, but cooling, as if I had a fever or something. I don't know how long I was there, or why I didn't need to breathe, so I guess it wasn't long before I saw him.

   Almost like a shadow coming closer, he came up near me, watching me with bleeding eyes and a really devious grin. For some reason, he looked a lot like a game character, but I wasn't for sure. No, this was someone else. Someone.....dark. But not necessarily threatening. Surprised by him, I reached out a hand, but he pulled away, not pleased that I want to feel him. Instead, he mumbled something, words that I could barely hear over the pressure of water in my ears.

  I.....I think he was sad when he spoke, because he looked down and back at me, and those eyes held pain, pain that I never would want to experience. The crushing feeling in my heart made me reach out again, but he repeated his actions before. Again, he spoke, but I couldn't hear him. I motioned it too, but he didn't seem to get it. We were just watching each other, deaf to our words.

  There was this roar, like a wave was building behind him, and it was getting louder as it came forward us. The boy looked scared for a moment, before motioning still with hastened movements. I could see he felt pressed on time, and now he was just trying to get is point across. This feeling of agitation came over me, and my hand lunged at him. I was going to grab him and take him to the surface with me. But....

  My fingers slipped right through his arm. What should have been skin glitched, pixels and smears of letter and numbers appearing through my hand. They were red and shimmered before appearing as his arm again. I looked up at him, almost worried as to what I had done, but he just stared at me. Staring with surprise.

  But before either of us could do anything, the water vibrated as this dark looming shadow feel across his shoulders, coming over us. I could see him sigh a heave of bubbles in defeat before the water pushed up around me, sending me spinning away from him like I was caught under a wave. I could feel the water pulling and pushing me into awkward shapes, the compression on my lungs indefinite.

I couldn't see through the dark water now, but it ended in calm, the passing of a rip tide. And I could tell I was now alone.


  I'm sorry if this sounds like so overly fabricated day-dream, but it felt so real. Everything was so vivid and certain, like how this is here, me talking to you. I......I don't know. Do you think we could play a different game?


I sort of want to go old school, Nintendo 64 style. One of those old cartridge games that we used to play together when we were younger. The name? Um, wasn't it....Majora's Mask?