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chapter two. a different understanding
ALANIdreamt that night, again.
This time had been shorter━━a lot shorter. At first, Alani Mordor hadn't even fully realised that what she was dreaming could've been a premonition, until she felt pain.
She had been walking forwards, the darkness encasing her vision completely, the point where she was only walking for the sake of finding something. Her arms were placed forward, stretched out to find something to land on, something that could possibly let her know where she was and what was surrounding her.
Her bare feet pushed her onwards, and her fingertips barely grazed against something wooden when a sharp pain shot through her foot. Alani hissed out suddenly, tears beginning to prick behind her eyes as she instantly backed away from whatever she stepped on.
Giving herself a moment to catch her breath, Alani bent down, gently placing her hand against the bottom of her feet to check without her sight. An unknown liquid substance was met against her fingertips, and Alani sighed in defeat━━she must've stepped on something sharp enough to cut her.
So, with that mind, she slowly dropped her hands to the ground where she presumed the culprits would be, and found what felt to be glass.
She sighed━━she could really do with some light.
A light gust of wind rushed past her, and she snapped her head in the direction she thought it came from. She was only met with completely darkness, once more. Only her breathing could be heard, and her heart began to pick up speed out of fear of the unknown.
To her left, the opposite of before, another gust of wind rushed past━━this time, much heavier. It surprised Alani greatly━━it didn't help that she was scared tenfold, causing her reactions to be a lot quicker━━and she felt her back smack itself against something wooden behind her.
A gasp left her lips at the sudden contact, and she could only tightly shut her eyes in fear, stinging tears desperate to cascade down her cheeks. She repeated a mantra within her head, telling herself that everything was fine, it wasn't really happening━━
And, that was when a scream tore through the atmosphere.
Thanks to that, Alani Mordor was sporting light bags under eyes, ones she had attempted to cover up. Her eyes were droopy with lack of sleep (she didn't even try to go to sleep after that━━could you blame her? She was terrified!), and her movements were almost sloppy, without a grace of energy involved within each one. She was pretty sure she continued to bump into random students, but she didn't show any signs of actually caring.
