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Chapter 7 - Endless maze

Out of that foggy area there are re emergence of desolate cityscape . This place can strip someone's of his phycological sanity by specially in the dense fog. This rings acts as an anchor to keep the sanity. I inspected the ring , it looks like a simple brass ring . What's special with it? how it works? Questions started to cloud in my mind but I don't have time to experiment I have to regroup with Lilly. I can't leave her alone but can't enter the fog again their might be a mechanism behind it , I just have to figure it out. After some thinking come up with two possibilities. First possibility is she will escape the fog with the help of the ring and will be in periphery of the fog some where. Second possibility can be that she isn't able to escape the the fog but is stuck in the fog but her sanity is protected by the ring. Fog occurred when we witnessed the giant floating serpent like creature , that might be trigger for the occurrence of the fog. This fog has specific radius I can't estimate it from here I have to go some where higher. There are many abandoned high-rise I can take a proper look of the area from them. I set off for the nearest skyscraper but before departure I searched the area for Lilly but failed to find her . That's why first possibility looking unlikely . This is a mind world but I can't do any things at my will it's more like a living world with strict rules and symbolisms. This is not my personal mind world it is a mind of that serpent the fog might be a ability of the serpent . This desolation is more like a distant future that can be possible . I reached the building . I walked more then a kilometer but I didn't encounter any other creature a lone world were there might be only three creature me Lilly and that Dragon like colossal serpent. In that building rooms were yellow similar looking without any windows . I was not stupid enough to enter a endless looking space. I used the utility pipe and window edges to go up avoiding those yellow rooms after going in second story room was looking normal that's why I broke the window and enter . It was normal looking just empty that's why this was carrying an eerie feeling. I was easily able to to reach sufficient height without facing any thing. From the highest floor I noticed that fog covered land has a radius of half a kilometer . That fog is fading I noticed the figure of Lilly in the middle . As I run to departure I suddenly found my self in the endless yellow rooms door behind me had vanished . I am trapped! A monotonous place everywhere I go there was same yellow room there are doors . when I cross them I reach end less office quarters. There wasn't any danger but there was a feeling of continuously being watched . It was enough to raise my heartrates. It was the feeling of uncertainty. I crossed more than twenty doors only thing changed is the scenery . There were times I though I should end my life but I did let it to take over my mind and i keep walking . I had made a determination to overcome whatever comes I am not backing off and giving up is out of the list . I keep walking this time a red door appeared I opened it I reached in a gallery . There was pictures of secrete creatures a blob made up of countless illusory worms , orange fox with nine tales , a tiger with loin's head , snake with two head in the both end of the body, bird with flames , a bat without face , a headless black cat , a human with a scribbled face . Name of them are absent It wasn't like they were never present at all but as if the names were deliberately torn off. After that pictures starting to repeat in a loop in that end less corridor . I reached a pale yellow door crossing it I reached a damp underground graveyard . Endless rows of graves. A chill ran down my spine. I was loosing my footing one thing was common 14th February 2047. This was the day I suffered the loop what happened then why all have same date of death. Suddenly a laugh echo from behind me . There was a silhouette of a young man . As I blinked It vanished. I composed myself then looked around. There was a gate made of glass reflecting myself. I opened it and I was out of that endless maze. That familiar desolate landscape. I was still in the mind world but there was a relief that I escaped that monotonous rooms. 

" So here you are ."A woman's voice ringed in my head .

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