Land of the living

Ok so before i start the story i would like to apologies for missing last week and say i promise the conclusion of the Ascended series will be next week. just hitting a few writers blocks and trying to make it great before i post it. so here is a different story that i think you might like.
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Darkness spread out and blanketed everything. Yusav wasn’t blind, but he might as well have been, because he couldn’t see even an inch in front of his face. He walked blindly, careful where he stepped. He didn’t know what the landscape looked like and didn’t want to trip over something of step off an edge. As he walked voices floated through the air. These voices were familiar but he couldn’t tell who it was, they were too faint and far away. he continued walking, trying to move a little faster, hoping to find someone he knew. even if they were both lost, they could be lost together.

“Yusav, I miss you” a voice echoed. Everything the voice said before and after this was too quiet to hear. But just hearing that phrase he knew who it was. “Ann?” he shouted back. Ann was his sister and she seemed upset and by saying she missed him it must mean he had been gone for a while now. Yusav didn’t even remember how he got here or where here was, he certainly wouldn’t be able to tell how long he had been away from home. Every time Yusav spoke, his words came out as silence. He could not call out to his sister or the other familiar voices because he no longer had a voice. His family was lost in this strange darkness and he could not hear nor see them.

He stumbled through the darkness for what seemed like hours, but without a sense of time it could have been minutes or days. Despite having a silent voice, Yusav called out to his family. “Sister, Mother, father!” he yelled, his words floated out in front of his face then vanished in the darkness. the more he walked the louder the voices were. He could hear his girlfriend crying, then suddenly she would be reading a story out loud, then the voice would change to Ann’s voice and she would talk about her day. The voices talked like they weren’t lost in the darkness, they seemed upset but not scared and alone, like Yusav was. “Family, where are you!” Yusav yelled out. He had grown desperate and began sprinting through the darkness, no longer being careful of ledges or walls that might be hiding in the shadows.

He ran forever but the darkness never waned and the voices never grew any closer. Feeling defeated, Yusav collapsed to the ground and began to cry. He didn’t know why he was here in this place of torment and he no longer believed he would be able to escape. Then his body began to twitch and jerk around, he felt a rush through his veins and felt like he was being dropped into icy cold water, he gasped to take one final breath, then bright light washed the darkness away. He began to see images, everything was blurry at first but then they came into view. He saw his family standing over him, smiling with tears in their eyes. “Welcome back to the land of the living” His father said. Yusav was in a hospital bed, but he couldn’t remember why. The doctor explained he had been in an accident and went into a coma for a year and just now woke up after no signs of recovery.

Yusav didn’t remember any of this, but realized that the voices he heard were his family visiting him and talking to him every day. Reading from his favorite books or making conversation like everything was normal, and this made his brain respond. Yusav was pulled out of the nothingness and back to the land of the living. His body hurt and he would have to regain his motor functions but he was alive and had his family there to help him. So even though he couldn’t remember everything from his past yet, he knew his future would be fine.