Life's A Journey

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Life’s Journey
High atop a bare, jagged hillside, and sealed off with rusted gates of
iron, lies a decaying and ancient estate that makes many of its neighbors
fearful. The hideous statues of demonic creatures look down on the town
with frightful eyes. Many townspeople are afraid of this horrifying house,
but all will enter.
Vie N. Mort, a young, naïve boy, walks up the mountainside, already leery
by nature, and with a feeling of foreboding, and a fear of the unknown,
approaches the estate. His heart pounds with every step he takes, and even
though his entrance causes a chill to shoot down his back, his curiosity
overrides his distrust and fear. The day is beginning, and the bright
morning sun provides the estate’s only source of light. As Vie enters, he
sees a countless number of corridors. He chooses the first corridor to the
left, taking him along what seems to be a mile-long path, lined with books
on dusty bookshelves, ending at an ebony door. With some thought, he opens
the door, and sees a room as black as the casing he is standing under.
Nothing is present in this room save a ray of light which enters in through
a bleak, cloudy window. The light shines in the window and illuminates the
room. The unfurnished room appears to be endless, stretching beyond Vie’s
sight. His fear of this room is unexplainable. His reaction is immediate
as he turns and runs from the room, frantically searching for an exit.
Vie sprints down the hallway without knowledge of the path he is taking, and
soon becomes lost. In his desperate search for escape, time has elapsed and
it is now afternoon. Eventually, he stops running and looks around him.
There are before him many paths he can choose. He jogs, because he is now
too tired to run, down a corridor lined with old family portraits. At the
end of this corridor, he arrives at another ebony door. With hesitation he
opens the do...