An Old Dream

I was back at the bleak place again. That place thrumming with filth and despair.

It was like a rewind tape, like I was going through the motions, which has been replayed before. The dream that I had when I had been thrown into the holding cell, when I had been in a coma.

I don't know what it means, but it seems that it will keep coming until I discover its purpose, its reason for visiting me.

Yet, why me?

I sighed when a woman's despairing cry echoed in my soul, tearing at me, reprimanding me, drawing me back from the edge of a great precipice. And I was starving.

It was just as before.

Every cell in my body craved food and something else, something I could lay my finger on, mostly because I had rehearsed the dream by now.

Blood.

I was somewhere underground.

The hunger raked at me with merciless claws until a red haze covered my sight and my pulse hammered with the need for immediate sustenance.