Facility

For thirteen days and nights he searched. Brought down by the cold wind and rain lashing at his tormented face. Tears of distress and agony streamed down his aging face as he searched. Day in and day out, never getting closer. Her last words stuck in his mind permanently. “Don’t follow me”, yet he followed. Like a stray dog searching for his master, he followed. Never giving in, never backing down. He remembered the way the light would catch her eyes as she looked at him. Those gold and sapphire glinting eyes were all that kept him going. Yet, there they were, staring, 40 yards away. She was there. He sprinted toward her, abruptly running into an elderly woman. She ran crying in distress, she could not bear to see him again. He ran to catch her, gliding across the marble floor as if floating chasing a dream. She continued to flee running from her past. His pained tormented face turned into that of a desperate, crazed man, dead set on what he wanted. She slid around the corner to the glorious safe haven, the bathroom. She ran in, bolted the door shut, and slid down the wall crying. A wave of relief flowed over her cleansing her from her grief and memories of the past. Her ears pricked as she heard the breath of a man standing over her. Darkness flooded her mind and senses. She was in limbo trapped in her own thoughts and memories, unable to communicate with the outside. Cold, bright, crisp light blinded her. She was in a white room, tied to a bed. Fear and dread overwhelmed her. What fate had God bestowed upon her, leaving her in the clutches of an evildoer. Her train of thought was broken by the discordant noises of keys turning and locks opening, letting the man into the room, the man that had been searching ever so long for her. She screamed and cried and thrashed, making for a feeble and poor attempt to escape the dark clutches of this evil man. The man shook his head in disappointment. The man spoke in a soothing voice explaining how tired he was of chasing after her, how disappointed the facility was. The woman laid in bed, dumbfounded. She pondered. Perhaps this man was the very person who had come to save her from the torment and shame of years gone by, the very angel saving her from herself. But alas she would never come to know the intentions of the man, nor of the facility. She was never heard from again.