"Come. To. Us."

"Come. To. Us.

Come. To. Us.

Come. To. Us."

It just wouldn't shut up. The whispers, they were just incessive, chittering and chattering at the back of her mind, just outside the bounds.

"Come. To. Us."

It wasn't a voice. There was no one speaking it. Words that were never spoken, with no tone or inflection or any soul that would imply that it was said by someone. They were just there, floating free yet forcefully entering.

"Come. To. Us."

It was the same each time, like a record player skipping over and over again, more intense each time and yet not.

"Come. To. Us."

She was compelled to run towards the pit. The pit beckoned.

"Come. To. Us."

Nora jumped into the swirling abyss. She was falling and falling, speeding up every second. She quickly reached the speed of terminal velocity and then surpassed it. Faster and faster she fell. She screamed as the speed threatened to rip her face apart. Faster and faster. The lit gas stretched into streaks of light as she picked up even more speed.

Then she was out. Like a train leaving a tunnel, she suddenly found herself in deep silence as a vast sea of space stretched in all directions, innumerable stars everywhere she looked. She still felt herself falling, but the scenery did not pass or move away, so it gave Nora feeling of unease in her stomach.

"Come. To. Us."

She looked in the direction of this voice. Ahead of her was a blotch of especially dark space, where the stars did not shine. It was not that there were no stars in that direction, but that something was blocking them.

"N-no... N-no! No! Aaah-aaah-AAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Nora tasted iron in her mouth, and she sobbed.

IG'SHEGGELOH

"COME. TO. US."

Nora blacked out.