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Altered: Burning Horizon, Chapter 2

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Chapter 2 Fire        I was running, panting, I can’t remember what I was running away from, but my instincts told me to keep running. Everything was being swallowed up by a force, a force so great, I’ve never felt so much fear before this. Everything was dark. I couldn’t run anymore. My legs can’t move. I was standing in an empty plane of darkness as a figure emerges from it. It looked human, almost animal, but not quite of either and had eyes that were blazing. It lunged towards me at full force, teeth and claws were visible from its deformed shape. Snap. “ Gasps! ”       Sweat poured out from my body that was shaking in fear, it wasn’t the first time I had such a dream, or a nightmare as how I’d prefer to put it. A distinctive feature between reality and dreams is that one is real and one is not. At that very moment, both of those were of no difference.         It was already morning by the time I woke up. I took a look at the time, and it was a few minutes