I have long since surrendered to the routine that I have set out for myself. The corpses, having watched them until I tired, never showed any behavior to be worth of noting. They are still insane, and still suffering, and still moaning, and still in the uncanny valley between humanity and bestiality. I find no worth in watching over them anymore; they have bored what water was left in my body out of me.
Reading books, cleaning, exercising, drawing maps, writing poems, gazing at candles, reading more books. Reading every single book. Reading them again. Not sleeping. Not getting a drop to drink. Listening to the moans of the living dead. Piling the objects I find, same as my stress piles up. It is infuriating; there is no thing left to do, no activity to perform, no ideas to write down. Life like this is not fulfilling; I would be happier to be trapped in an actual prison for the rest of my life, surrounded by my own waste, if only that would mean to be alive and human. This worthless hole of death; have I already exhausted every possible way to describe it? Are the writings detailing the living, tortured dead, the walls collaged in blood, floors covered in flesh, halls caved in debris, not been enough to portray the suffering and utter despair I am going through while trapped in here? Surely not, because my torment is not something that can be understood, and I will forever preach that no being should ever have to endure such a thing. And yet here I am, and here they are.
But I don’t want to part ways from my still rational mind. I want to survive, but every second I fight a force straying me from any purpose or meaning. I beg God to not let me turn into them. I haven’t lost faith. Water can heal it all.
The forces in parted control over me are to fear; I can’t bring myself to explore all of this place, as something always makes me hesitate, taking me back, turning me around. I’m just ranting on, as I try to record my own survival. Was there ever anything of value to say? My notes have always been brief, and of them there are not that many. And yet, my few words are but prophets of doom that foretell my own eventual fall. I can’t take it anymore. My handwriting has gotten worse and worse.
I have attempted to keep track of time, but I have failed, try and struggle as I might. Just as inexplicably as other forces inside this dungeon, my measurements never match, even with the sunray coming from above to tell and hint. It’s taunting me. How many months has it been? Several seasons; 4, or 5? Maybe that’s too much, maybe that's too less; I don’t know.
God, you have already taken too long. Please, end this misery. For all of us. /
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