The window on the west side of the room was still open; the gentle breeze was still blowing but it wasn't so dark like the darkness inside that cave. A faint light was coming from the lamppost near his room. The facility has stopped giving him sleeping meds to see if he starts improving. First few nights he couldn't sleep and after that he'd wake up with sweats; nightmares, he can't escape. Every night during rounds, the nurse finds him sitting on his bed; he barely sleeps. Sometimes he would take the box and start to twist it; he'd put it down and walked towards the window. This was a regular thing for him; not sleeping enough, not eating properly, not talking, twiddling with the box and walking around the room with thoughts only he knows.

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His nightmares are different, each a new everyday, but all of them related to that godforsaken cave. His emotions are tangled; he can't rest. He wants this misery to end; he wants the answer to the puzzle he has been failing to solve almost 4 years now. What mystery does it hold? If he found out, only then he could have a good rest; or perhaps die peacefully. He was in agony, not due to any physical pain but to the mental torture that box was putting him through. That darn puzzle box had ripped his life apart. He wished he never boarded the ship.

He was dreaming; no, not a good one, not a nightmare either. He was recalling something that happened already. He found himself in the clutches of that hurricane that flung him towards the uninhibited island which was far off of his course. He was tossing and turning on his bed as if he was still on the ship holding hol to his life and praying to God to let him live; this one time. He clutched the sheets in an attempt to not fall off from the ship; he was back there again in his sleep state.


***Replaying***

He doesn't remember how he reached here; the hurricane tossed the ship he was on like a kite, it was terrible. The ship would go up and down and spin like it's a marionette and the puppetmaster is a toddler playing with it nonsensically. One or two times it got submerged into the water and then came back up again; he was drowning, everyone was. The crews were trying to get the boats and get off of the ship but three among five of them crashed. On the remaining two boats,  anyone got on whoever could get on; everyone fought for a place, some even jumped just to land on the boat. No one was prepared to die this way; neither was he. Then he got somersaulted, hit his head and fell on the deck; he was bleeding. And for the umpteenth time, the ship drowned but not to get back up this time; this time it really drowned along with so many others. He was gulping the salt water, trying to swim to get a barrel or a piece of wood and grasping anything he can and even hope that he may survive just this one time. But fate wasn't smiling towards him; he was saved that day only to live in torment for a long time.

He was lying flat on his stomach still clutching the plank he was floating with. The crows and gulls were squawking at each other over what looked like a mutilated dead dolphin. The sea was calm; the hurricane had ended wrecking everything in its path. He could hear the birds faintly but he was too tired to wake up. His eyes opened.

He opened his eyes, sat up at an urgency and looked around; he was still in bed. Breathing heavily he wiped sweat from his face trying to make sense to what's real and what's a dream; he was no longer dreaming. His pulse was getting normal, breathing was becoming steady; finally feeling a sense of relief. He reached for the glass of water at the night stand and by some unknown force, his eyes drifted off to the pyramid that is now placed at the corner of the table. This was going to be another one of those nights for him.

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