Nine

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Lying in a heap on the floor shivering, the glade comes to life, well as lively a it can be after a sleepless night. but i didn't feel the need to get up, i felt something deep inside me, some recognition of thee feeling.
Slowly i drifted away, toward the unbuzzing wall of recognition

A woman kneels, crying at a girls feet, "please" she whimpers taking hold of the child's ankles, "please don't take her from me"

The scene changes and a girl, i guessed me, stood with a boy with chestnut hair and a thin smile. Thomas. the teenagers stand in front of three people, two men one woman, all in white lab coats. But the teenager stand in a box, like a prison, the scientists the other side of the window. the lady in the middle speaks "mirrored, you will mirror each other, but you must cross the glass threshold and reach each other."

The voice carries on but the picture changes, the same picture i saw before, with the battered and bloodied people, but this time i'm not safely floating above, these people surround me, "you must find each other or the whole earth will become like this" all heads turn to me as the voice slows, i gasp as these... monsters... take out items, broken shards of glass garden tools, wooden sticks and even knives. slowly they step towards me, i jolt to my senses and run. except i don't go anywhere. I was frozen to the spot. the men women and even children charge at me weapons raised, and before i know it their on me, tearing my skin, sending blasts of fiery pain shooting all over my body, i scream, a gurgled bloody scream. but a scream all the same.

Waking i look around, no dramatic half scream/sat bolt upright wake up. just a normal dream wake up (plus about half a bucket of sweat) looking around i notice chucks gone, oh great they've blamed me for this have they? I think. wondering if I'll be left to the grievers tonight, or even worse some kind of human torturing they can think of. rushed footsteps snap my thoughts, sending them shattering to the ground, alby and newt appear by the slammer door, alby shouting at newt and newt backing down. alby unlocked the door just as i jumped to my feet, "pushing newt down making him stumble backwards and fall into me, "c ya yer shanks, hope ya enjoy another day in there" alby says.

I groan and newt whispers "what have i bloody done".

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