You Woke Up Falling pt. 4

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The feeling you have, the dread, begins setting in. You have been thrown from a tower, tossed around in the ocean, blown up onto the rocky breakwater, hit in the back of the head, and taken captive. You have woken up, bound against a pole in a dimly lit cave with unrecognizable creatures in the distance milling about.

The candle to the right of you is starting to flicker. The wick is small, the wax is all but gone and…