The Sacredness of Tears

After Raiyn lost her mother when she was only twelve, she began suffering unimaginable pain. Now, five years later, at the age of seventeen she finds herself orphaned after her father dies in a horrific drunk accident. Her life is a living nightmare.
Then she begins having nightmares. Terrifying images, places, and things begin to visit her in her sleep.
While trying to navigate the reason behind her sleepless nights, she is also trying to navigate the new life that she has been thrown into. A new city. A new home. People she's never met. A family she never knew she had.
Something in her is stirring.
Maybe it's all the pain she's been festering, deep down, that's finally coming to the surface.
Maybe, just maybe... it's something more.

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It was violent movements, rapid, heading directly for me. My heart spiked as I began to think of a mode of escape. But I was too late. I turned around as the giant beast dug its claws into my chest.