A Vision of Choices: Part 2

You squeeze through the entrance to the cave and find yourself in a cool, dark area, barely lit by cracks in the wall. Several figures stand huddled around a green book laying on the ground, and as you watch silently, their hands pass through it again and again. The figures begin to de-materialize, becoming more and more shadowy with every attempt to grasp the tome. Suddenly, they each turn at once to you, their faces hollowed out and only distinguishable by two, red pinpoints of eyes. Their gaze freezes you, and you stand at the entrance, caged in your own mind and body. With no sound, all light around you is consumed, and in the dark you can feel the shadowy monsters begin to remove your skin inch by inch.