27 August 2012
Foul water drips onto the filthy floor. Diseased rats squeak and scurry through silent passages. The dark murky tunnel reeks of sour water, as it feebly trickles across the hard stone ground. Tentacles of motionless icy air hung in the grimy corridors.
Thousands of eerie forgotten corridors sit deep within the cold earth. Crisscrossing under the manic city.
A torch beam slices through the pitch black rancid air. It illuminates the large tunnel, shining off the moist brick walls. A thin figure dashes across the gaping passage entrance, a deadly knife glittering in their bony hand. Swirling around the beam came to rest on more gaunt creatures. Skeletal bodies clothed in ripped ragged rags, stare unblinkingly into the torches bright light. Exhausted faces with sunken pearly eyes and grey skin glared at the intruder. An awful smile broke out on the drained faces. Sharp white teeth sparked threateningly in the dim corridor. Straggly colourless hair fell around their ill looking bodies Wicked knifes shone in their ashen hands. The man stumbled away fear clutching his racing heart. Sweat beads collecting on his feverish forehead Terror stricken eyes gleamed in the glow. Pondering feet reverberated off the solid tunnel. Quicker and quicker. Faster and faster.
The beautiful city lay bathed in the blood-red sunset. People bustled around its winding streets. As the ebony night cloaked the world.
Tunnels • Opuss № I