queen of hearts / enoch o'connor / on hiatus

iv.

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Everything was dark and I could hear screaming and a fire roaring in the distance. I see myself looking torn and wrecked as I scream for the names of my friends. I see waves pushing and pulling me as I drown in the screams of the children around me.

Then darkness surrounds me as I see them. I see their long tongues and spindly figures and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't move as my imagination shows me this.

And so I did the only thing I could do. 

I screamed.

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"Frances! Frances!" I hear someone shout along with many others as they shake me awake.

I sit up and panted as the images, no memories , flash in my head. 

"Frances are you okay?" I hear Emma as I felt tears go down. "Enoch and Emma take the children and go back to sleep and no eavesdropping understand?" Ms. Peregrine says as I hear the children scurry away.

"Frances what have you seen?" She asks as she rubs my back and gives me water.

"I-I... saw memories and them." I shakily say as I almost crush the glass in my hands before Ms. Peregrine grabbed it out of my reach.

"Now Frances I just need you to relax." She says as I exhale and inhale some more.
"The...they were there.... The hollowgasts.. I -I could see them. I could se- see the.. the child - children and hear their crying.." I say as I shake repeating those thoughts in my head once more.

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