9th Life - This is a creative writing assignment which is an introduction to a horror story.

While on vacation, I chanced upon a conch shell. I was always told that if you held one up to your ear, you would be able to hear the sweet sounds of the ocean. Shockingly, I found that this was completely untrue. I just kept hearing the same sentence over and over again. It did not matter to me because I couldn't make any sense out of it. The only thing to be heard was a voice saying, "While the lions are fighting, do not enter the den." I could feel the wind kick up and brush over me like the breezes in the savannah. Although the temperature measured forty degrees Celsius, a cold chi…