Prologue

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I had a strange dream today.

Well, technically it's tonight. No no scratch that. It was yesterday night. Argh.

Oh wait sorry, you don't even know who I am and what I'm rambling about. So HELOOO THERE! This is Liliana Corin, a straight-A second-year student from Vincula University. (By straight 'A', I mean "Amazing" but never mind). So anyway, people say I'm nice just like my name. I love people and people love me. I also love instant noodles, violin, Meredith gray(which is one of Taylor Swift's cats), and Singapore-

Oh, wait sorry again. I'm not doing an interview, am I? Enough about my resume. Let's dive into my dream. So I was going to college as usual only to find it was so unusual that day. Ah, I forgot this. Something odd happened in the morning too. The newspaper man's honk was different. It sounded more like it came from an electronic device than a cycle horn. And the newspaper- it was in a different language. And back at college, no one was there; not even our Punctual Prakash sir. Yet I walked to my class. And why was my mom sitting there? My dad too? Wait, why all my friends are there? ....And someone's teaching them something. And.. he.. he.. looked.. he didn't look like a human. And there it was, in bold letters, in the whiteboard, 

"KINGDOM OF MORTEMIS - RULES AND REGULATIONS TO FOLLOW"

Woah what a dream!

What could the dream possibly mean? Is my brain that talented to make weird stories? The morning weather does no justice to my already lazy self as it makes me curl up in my blanket more. My alarm went off like 45 minutes ago. I've to get ready for college. Oh come on Lil, you can do it!

First things first. I can feel my every cell waking up from an eight-hour "hibernation" as coffee slips through my esophagus. I pick up the newspaper and- what the heaven?! I choke on my coffee and it rains down on the newspaper I'm holding, the one that usually comes at 7 am every day, the one that looks a little too different, THE ONE I SAW IN MY DREAM!

The newspaper man's horn is ringing again. And it's the same sound I heard in my dream. And it's completely dark now. That's when I open my eyes.

Okay, lemme get this straight. Did I just have a dream in a dream? That too the same dream? Um.. that's really weird... right?

I got off my bed and make my way straight to get the newspaper (you know, curiosity and all), but this time without coffee. Coffee can wait, curiosity cannot.

The newspaper is staring back at me, with foreign letters. And on the bottom right corner, there is one English sentence that makes my soul leave my body,

"KINGDOM OF MORTEMIS"

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