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Chapter 2

January 20, 1982

I just had the weirdest dream of my life... I was gardening when some random triangle (with a top hat and bowtie for some reason???) pops up and just starts spewing nonsense to me??? He told me to go into my garden as soon as possible and that I had been chosen by a goddess and to look for her book?? Then he went on about how the universe is a hologram and something, something buy gold?? I don't even know what's going on anymore, but one thing I do know is that I woke up with a splitting headache and that was a very weird dream. But I guess I'll go into my garden and try to find this book by some 'goddess'. Ugh, god this headache hurts.

-S.

S. gets up from her bed and goes off to find some headache medicine to take and then gets ready for the day. She then goes out to her garden and starts to look around for this possible book that was left for her.

S. looked around for a few minutes until she noticed something behind her forget-me-not flowers. Is it the book she was looking for? She went to pick it up and suddenly got a chill down her spine. She shook her head and picked up the book anyways.

She goes to open the book and immediately feels like something is wrong about this but she ignores it and starts to read the first page. "I'm happy to meet you. Please do not be afraid my dear. Everything will be okay as long as you do what this book says to do." ....What?

She flips the page and there was a photo, and a note next to it. "Do not stop staring at the photo until it's changed." Thinking that this is all a joke, S. obliged and stared at the photo, it was a photo of a girl, near her age maybe? As she continued to stare at the girl waiting for a sign that says she can stop staring, that's when it happened..

The photo.. It changed. It went from that random girl to... her. 'What the fuck?!?' S. thought as she dropped the book, in absolute shock over what had just happened. But as she went to pick it back up, it seemed to have a slight glow to it now and when she bent down to grab the book she felt nauseous. REALLY nauseous, so she quickly grabbed the book and went inside to grab some water and sit down to check to see if what she saw was real...

As she reopened the book, she noticed that the note on the page was gone as well.. she continued on. Thankfully, when she read the rest of the book nothing changed, it just talked about the supposed 'goddess' and how her name is 'Ezera'. She apparently helps run some therapeutic place in the... galaxy? With an axolotl as well? 'What is going on???' S. thought and then went on to read the rest of the book.

That is, until, she came to a certain spot in the book. A ritual. A ritual which would summon the goddess apparently. It seemed to be a simple ritual, nothing too crazy except for the fact that the ritual required at least 3 things S. treasured most and... sugar? But not only that, but, as any ritual would call for, a sacrifice. And not any old sacrifice like a goat or a virgin or whatever. It had to be the person pictured on the second page of the book...

S. had to be the sacrifice... Yet... it also noted that she wouldn't die? Which is nice but how would she sacrifice herself if she wasn't going to die? Guess there was only way to find out... 'I hope I have enough sugar...'

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