The darkness—the painfulness of the voice that drilled into her skull pushed the overwhelmed girl backwards, one heavy step of her disobedient feet at a time, as if she was fighting against an unseen force that drew her towards the creature. Lara crossed her arms tightly against her chest—hands made into shaking fists—stared into the unearthly glow of the diabolic eyes, and had absolutely no idea how or why would the thing know her by her past.<br/><br/><i>Focus!</i>Lara’s subconscious screamed,<i>Don’t expose my weakness! It thinks it knows me, I must not reveal I have no clue who or what it is.</i><br/><br/><i>”Stay back!”</i>Lara commanded in her head, and focused until the tiny fracture through which the voice spoke to her was sealed, although, she had no idea for how long. On that instant, the slowness of time she had felt ended, and the last couple of backward steps moved her much further away. She straightened her trembling arms down by her sides, raised her shoulders in anger, and stood still with every muscle of her body tightened as she showed the fearsome creature how to control her fear.<br/><br/>“Away where you came from!” Lara yelled at the shambling grotesque.<br/><br/><i>All those names it called me…</i>the thoughts spiraled in her mind,<i>What have I forgotten?!</i><br/><br/>The girl still stared at the ancient being—stubbornly unmoving—her eyebrows frowned in the rage that she felt for realizing that a chapter of her eternal memories had gone missing, and there she had just been thinking she had the perfect mind.<br/><br/><i>Another?</i>Lara suddenly realized that the voice had been referring to someone else, and there—the sounds from behind the distant metal door were finally recognized by her panicking mind. As the monster still kept getting closer and closer no matter her reckless attempts to wish it to stop, Lara dashed her way back into the darkness of the corridor where she had come from, and prayed for the door to open before she’d hit a wall, or even worse, before the lurking spawn of chaos would finally make its way to her.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>