Frozen Void

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Here you are, 
Once again,
You see that you have once again found yourself within the serene pools of Level 37; or at least you assume you have.
Many more levels have been discovered resembling Level 37, it can be difficult to remember which is which at times.
You take a look around the room you spawned in, all the details matching that of the Liminal Pools. The pearly white tiles, the heavenly bright windows and lights shining upon the rivers, and the smell of chlorine pool water emanating throughout the claustrophobic halls and tunnels.
This level is such a peaceful place...
The sounds of the oh-so slightly moving water, making but the slightest sound...
With the glowing lights emitting not a sound at all, it makes you thankful for not being in the infamous Level 0.
You ponder about your past, remembering when you first step foot into these waters.
You then start to think about the time in your life when you weren't here...
In what they call the Backrooms.
You can just barely recall the times where you thought the concept of another reality was just a fun joke between you and your friends...
...Did you have friends?
Did you really joke about that?
You couldn't recall.
This place has become your life. You have grown used to the life of liminality and being alone.
You snap back and remember where you were. Your favorite place...
This place has been your favorite location ever since you first stepped into it.
Nothing could hurt you here, the only thing you would have to worry about would be the occasional virus that plagued the waters at times.
You took a step into the water. It felt cold, yet warm at the same time.
You sat down in the shallow water and took a moment to appreciate being here again.
Only a minute later, you got a chill down your spine. You felt as if you were being watched.
in this world of liminal spaces, this would be a normal feeling, you've grown used to it for the most part, as you will never fully tolerate it.
However,
This level is known for the property of not being able to encounter other humans.
But more importantly
Entities.
You quickly panned around and checked every corner of your eyesight.
Nothing.
You have never felt this way here before, only within other levels.
What could be causing this?
You stepped out of the water and adventured through the tunnels.
You eventually encountered an area that could only be traversed by being within a pool 4 feet deep.
You wade through the water to reach the other side and once again, you get the feeling someone or something is watching you.
.
But you trek on.
You suddenly feel the waters temperature drop around you, not to a unbearable amount, but to an abnormal degree.
You slowly scramble out of the water and see the same bright windows your used to, but they seemed to be much more dim than you remember.
Then you realize.
The tiles all around you were much more darker than they were minutes beforehand.
This must have been some sort of anomaly. This was unnatural.
You took a look around.
You saw one of the possible generations you can encounter while exploring in this level...
You saw what looked like a tall pillar coated in the darkened tiles you stand on. A large set of spiraling stairs swirling around the pillar beautifully.
And at the top of the pillar, you saw what looked like an old plastic yellow slide, degraded to the point where its lost its color, and some sort of bacteria seems to be thriving on the outside shell of the slide.
The slide seems to go down off of the pillar, then into the wall.
You have heard of these rare occurrences before, but you have never seen them for yourself.
However, people described these occurrences as colorful and serene, describing bright slides with any color you think of.
You would have gone into the slide but decided against it.
You didn't know where it went.
You didn't want to risk it.
You went to continue on your path and then realized the color of the water has changed to have of a tint of green.
None the less, you still waded through the water.
You eventually noticed the ground start to slope downward, forcing you to start swimming through the tunnel.
You didn't even notice you were so far away from where you just where, light is barely creeping into the area of the tunnel you're in.
You were so focused on trying to stay afloat.
You eventually found that to continue, you would have to dive for an unknown amount of time.
You had to continue.
You dove underwater. The water was so dark you couldn't tell what direction you where swimming in.
You just kept going.
You wondered how long it would it be until you resurfaced.
Still, you continued. 
You felt the water become a piercing cold around you. 
You finally resurfaced. 
You felt like you were freezing, you were a bitter cold. 
And the temperature around you didn't make you feel any better. 
Everything around you was freezing cold. 
You felt the water you just climbed out of. 
It was freezing cold.
Once again, the tiles around you turned a darkened shade of what they once were.
However, you could barely see anything around you, the lights had become dimmed to the point where they spew out little light at all.
What had happened to this place?
You suddenly got the feeling you got twice before.
At this point, you thought you were just going insane, as this was a side effect to be expected while staying in areas like this for an extended period of time.
But all this time, being within this level, you thought as if you couldn't be affected.
You started to shiver.
The room was becoming unbearably cold.
You were so focused on how you were freezing that you only saw the color of the tiles and the dimmed lights that you didn't see what lied ahead of you.
What looked like an infinite flooded hallway stretching on forever with archways overhead. With almost no light present within.
You had no idea how long that could have stretched on for.
Was it infinite?
Or was is it just so dark you that couldn't see farther than what looked like several arches.
It felt like the darkness itself was staring back at you as you pondered about the geometry and if the area was finite.
eventually you remembered. Once again you had no where else to go. 
You simply continued forward.
you walked in the ankle-high pool water.
Your feet were freezing.
You walked into the dark areas of the hall
The air around you grew colder, and you couldn't even feel the water around you, your feet and ankles were already numb.
.
You were walking for what felt like forever.
Your sense of time is gone.
Even though there was no light around you, hall of arches was still dim to the point where you could still see where you were.
You just kept walking until..
You thought you heard the sound of static slowly becoming louder
The sound was becoming increasingly louder until you realized that it wasn't static
You almost lost your footing.
You caught yourself in the shallow water
Preventing yourself from getting drenched.
You stood up
And there it was.
You saw the void
A wall of darkness and nothingness.
It felt as if the void itself was staring back at you.
Almost as if the void was a living organism, studying your behavior.
You looked downward and saw a infinite waterfall, falling forever into the void.
This was all so wrong.
What had the void done to this place of serenity?
Just then, you turn around to a sound you thought you wouldn't hear.
The hall behind you disappear
The tiles slowly crumbling, falling apart or dropping into the void.
You had no where to go.
the tiles below your frozen body fell out from below you.
You fell into the freezing cold void
next to the infinite waterfall besides you.
I was doomed to such a horrible fate.
I did nothing to deserve this.
Who knew the place I loved in this cursed dimension could be my end.
This was just a cruel form of torture.
The void was amused by this
Wasn't it.
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