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A book slammed shut in the semi-dark. A pale globe of light illuminated only the book and the pale ghostly face of a young girl. The room looked like a large dorm of girls; footsteps echoed in the room, a click and creak of a doorway. The globe of light vanished and the young girl shoved her head into a pillow. A white globe of light shined through the crack of the doorway as an older woman sneaked in slowly. She scanned the sleeping forms. The woman was told to look for things out of place, and not content the woman dimmed the globe with a mere thought. She swept through the room looking for missing bodies. Nothing was out of order here. The old woman exited, closing the door behind her.
The darkness was cool and very, very dark. The girl was still awake, since she had just read part of a book. It was so dark it did not make one difference whether or not her eyes were open or closed. If not for the sleeping noises of the girls, she could hear the tiny clicks her eyelids made. But she kept her eyes opened; she could feel someone before her standing there. She tried to move her arm upwards, to feel if she felt true, but her body would not listen to her mind’s wishes. She was pinned as if by someone’s will.
A weight like someone had crawled into her bed with her, or rather on top of her made her heart thud quicker. Fingers pressed her eye lids closed as fear over took her heart in one single beat. “Sleeeep,” a horse voice hissed in her ear. She could only comply, thinking before she lost herself to darkness, “I hope to awake alive.”