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Promt 2: Just before you fall asleep, something scuttles across your window, scaring you awake. Describe that moment in 50 words or less.

Still pinching the edges of my dream, my eyes flickered open as if something had disturbed the air and produced a sound that chorused with the capture of my breath. See, though the darkness stood silently outside my window, it was because it too feared what had shifted between us.

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