It was like a strong jolt of current had zapped me back into consciousness. How long have I been in the dark for? As my body rebooted and regained some of its capacity to process my surroundings, a flurry of messages came online and scrolled in my retina, the central chip was thankfully mostly intact….

‘Light at the end of the tunnel’ is a mockery that seems to reverberate through the abyss of darkness and dank air. All he cares about right now is the feeble glow from a torch somewhere in the passageway that stretches to freedom beyond a sharp turn. He chuckles at the remembrance of what ‘freedom’…

There was a strange crackle around him..like the ominous and persistent splitting of an icy overhang just before it triggered a tsunami of catalyst towards disaster. Sounds that had accompanied him a millenia as he roamed camouflaged in the untainted glacial regions; his glorious white coat contrasting with sacred black markings fit for a majestic…