A SOFT THUD FROM BEYOND THE DARKNESS PULLED ME back into consciousness. I frantically looked around, searching for an indication of where I was. It all slowly came back to me as I peered into the blackness before me.
I could tell that I had been unconscious for several hours as I attempted to stand. Another thud from beyond the walls of my personal prison stopped me in my tracks. I had been held captive there for nearly five days by that point and in that timeframe, there was never so much as a peep from beyond the walls of my cell.
I placed my hands alongside the walls and felt my way over to the locked exit. I pressed my ear against the solid steel door and listened. To my surprise, the cold steel was actually quite soothing to the hunger headache that I had developed.
The next thud was much closer than the others. What’s going on out there? I wondered as I continued to listen. As if to answer my question, the sound of automatic gunfire suddenly rang out. I hurriedly backed away from the door as the lights flickered on just outside of my cell. My eyes had not seen a single photon of light in almost a week by that point. Therefore, the bits of light that seeped in through the corners of the door were absolutely blinding.
“Stand your ground, men! We can’t let him near the prisoner!” someone shouted from just beyond my cell. My heart throbbed frenetically as I realized that my team had come for me at last.
“Here he comes!” someone yelled and I heard a barrage of gunfire and other commotion ring out as my cell started to violently shake as if it was suddenly thrust into the middle of an earthquake.
I pressed my body against the back wall as something large suddenly slammed against the door of my cell. I sank deeper into the back of the room as another thundering impact shook the entire cell and caved the door in.
A wave of blinding light poured into the cell as the door was suddenly ripped from its hinges. I squinted and stared at the dark figure standing before me, immersed in a blanket of brilliant white light like an angel emerging from the heavens surrounded by its holy aura.
My eyes had not yet adjusted to the point where I could focus well, but I knew it was Adam. I knew that The Reaper had come for me.