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Speaker 1: I sat in my car in the hospital parking lot,

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clutching a pre road joint like a lifeline. The strain

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calm Horizon was my favorite, and Indica Hybrid perfect for

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easing my nerves, and today I needed it. I was

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scheduled for a routine surgery to remove my appendix. Routine

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for the doctors, maybe, but not for me. I hated hospitals.

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The sterough smell, the fluorescent lights, the cold efficiency, it

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all put me on edge. The idea of going under

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anesthesia was terrifying. Just a little hit, I muttered to myself,

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sparking a joint just to calm down. The first puff

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was smooth, the earthy, sitry smoke filling my lungs. I

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leaned back and closed my eyes, letting the familiar haze

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of relaxation wash over me. By the time I walked

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into the hospital, I felt like I was fl The

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checking process was a blur. I smiled at the receptionist.

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Her words are jumble of sounds. The bright lights seemed

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softer now, the stertle smell less offensive. I was guided

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to a pre op room, where a nurse handed me

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a gown and explained the procedure. I nodded along, though

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I wasn't entirely sure what she said. You seemed relaxed,

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the nurse said, raising an eyebrow. Yeah, I I guess

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I'm just ready to get it over with, I replied,

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chuckling nervously. The nurse smiled and left, promising the aneste

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giologist would be shortly. When the anestesiologist arrived, I was

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still riding my high. Doctor Marlowe, a tall man with

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a calm demeanor, explained the process. We'll give you a

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little bit of oxygen first, then administer the anesthetics. You'll

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be out in no time, he said, holding up a mask.

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As the mask was placed over my face, I noticed

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something strange. The edges of my vision began to blur,

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not in the usual way, but as if the room

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itself was warping. The fluorescent lights above seemed to twist

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and pulse, their hum growing louder. Just count backwards from ten,

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doctor Marlowe said. I obeyed ten, nine, eight, by seven,

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the room dissolved into darkness. When I opened my eyes,

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I wasn't in the same operating room. The walls were

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no longer white, but a deep, pulsating red, like the

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inside of a living organism. The surgical lights above glowed

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in an eerie green, casting unselling shadows. The doctors and

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nurses were still there, or at least they looked like

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they were. Their faces were distorted, their features elongated and shifting.

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Doctor Marlow's calm voice was now a gruttal growl, his

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eyes black voids. I took the Marlow said, his voice

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reverberating through the room. I tried to move, but my

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body was paralyzed. I felt the cold steel of a

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scalpel against my skin, followed by an intense, searing pain.

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I'm awake. I wanted to scream, but no sound came out.

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As the pain intensified, my surroundings shifted again. The red

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walls melted away, replaced by an endless black void. The

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surgical team was gone, replaced by shadowy figures with glowing eyes.

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They encircled me, whispering in a language I didn't understand.

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Their voices were low and hypnotic, pulling at the edges

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of my mind. One figure stepped closer, its hand extending

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towards my chest. I could feel it probering, not physically,

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but inside my mind, peeling back memories and thoughts, like

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the layers of an onion. It hissed, what door, I

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thought desperately. The door bit words, it replied, its voice

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echoing in my skull. Suddenly I felt a jolt, like

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being yanked backwards through a tunnel. I gasped and opened

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my eyes to see the real operating room. The walls

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were white again, the lights normal. The surgical team was

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working diligently. Welcome back, Miss Parker, doctor Marlow said, his

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face back to normal. I blinked, disorientated. Was was everything okay?

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The surgery went perfectly? Marlow replied, you'll be in recovery shortly.

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I nodded, but as the anesthetics were off, I couldn't

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shake the feeling that something was wrong. Back in my

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hospital room, I noticed strange things. The shadows in the

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corners of the room seemed darker, deeper. The clock on

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the wall tickedyr regularly, the second hand pausing and jumping.

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As I reached for a glass of water, my reflection

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in the window caught my eye. For a moment, it

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wasn't my face staring back. It was one of the

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shadowy figures, its glowing eyes piercing into me. I dropped

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the glass, shattering it on the floor. You opened the door,

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the figure's voice echoed in my mind. I realized with

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chilling clarity, whatever I'd seen during the surgery hadn't stayed behind,

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It had followed me back. I couldn't shake the eerie sensation.

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Every time I closed my eyes, the figure with glowing

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eyes appeared, its whispering voice filling my mind. You opened

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the door, The words seemed to echo, becoming a mantra

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that bent my perception of reality. The hospital room seemed

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normal at first glance. The stough walls, the ivy drip,

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the consistent beeping of machines were all as they should be.

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But when I looked closely, I noticed that things didn't belong.

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The shadows moved in unnatural ways, stretching and twitching, like

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they had a life of their own. A nurse entered

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the room, her smile too wide, her eyes a little

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too empty. She handed me a tray of food, but

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when I looked at the plate, it seemed wrong to

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shifting the food, no longer solid, but floating, as if

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suspended in the dark mist. You're doing well, the nurse said.

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Her voice sounded muffle, as if coming from underwater. I blinked,

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and in that brief moment, the food on the tray vanished.

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The nurse's eyes flashed with a knowing glimp. She left

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the room without another word, her footsteps echoing unnaturally in

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the hallway. It wasn't until I stood up to use

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the bathroom that I truly understand how deep the rabbit

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hole had gone. The reflection in the bathroom mirror was

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in my own. At first, it was just a flicker.

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My reflection seemed to move before me, a momentary distortion.

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But then it froze. My reflection wasn't smiling. It was grinning,

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its eyes wide and grazed, a twisted expression of malicious glee.

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I took a step back, heart pounding, but the reflection

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didn't move with me. It stayed there, staring, its smiled

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stretching white, until it cracked the surface of the mirror,

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Rippling like water. The reflection raised its hand to the glass,

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as if to touch my real hand, but I was

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too horrified to move closer. Suddenly, the figure and the

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mirror reached out through the glass, its fingers slipping into

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the world of the living. I screamed, stumbling backwards. I

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hit the wall hard, my pulse racing. As the reflection withdrew,

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The mirror cracked, a spider web of jagged lines spreading

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outwards the glass, trembling as if alive. The voice came again,

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whispering from the cracks ewen. As the night dragged dawn,

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my perception of time became distorted. Hours passed in what

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felt like minutes. I tried to sleep, but every time

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I closed my eyes, the shadows grew longer and deeper.

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My mind was slipping, unable to separate the hallucinations from reality.

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I stood in the hallway, unsure of how I got there.

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The lights above flickered and buzzed, casting long, distorted shadows

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on the walls. The hallway seemed endless, stretching on both directions.

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The doors to the other rooms were all shut tight,

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their numbers flickering with the red glow like an emergency sign.

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As I walked, I began to hear whispers, low, gruttal

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voices like the ones I heard in the operating room.

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They came from every direction, swirling around me. I spun

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in circles, trying to locate their source, but all I

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saw was darkened doorways, flickering lights and empty rooms. Suddenly,

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one door at the end of the hall creaked open.

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I hesitated, but the pool was too strong. Something was

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calling me, urging me to step inside. With a trembling breath,

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I walked towards the door. The room was small, the

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walls lined with old, yellowed photographs of people I didn't recognize.

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They were all blurry, their faces distorted in ways that

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sent to shiver down my spine. The room smelled of decay,

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and the air felt thick, as though the space itself

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had absorbed centuries of suffering. In the corner of the

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room there was an old chair, a single bulb hanging

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above it. The chair seemed familiar, like something from a

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forgotten nightmare. I couldn't help myself. I sat down, my

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body moving against my will. The chair groaned under my

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weight as if it were alive. I looked at the

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photograph on the walls again. They had shifted. The faces

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were clearer. Now I recognized something in the eyes of

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the people staring back at me. They were trapped. The

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voice came again, clearer, Now you opened the door, Now

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you belonged to us. My heart raised as the photographs

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began to shift, the faces now moving, whispering, their eyes

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following me, their mouths opening in a silent scream. The

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room began to close in on me, the walls narrowing,

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the air growing thick and suffocating. I tried to stand,

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but the chair held me in place, its arms like

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iron bands around my body. I was trapped, surrounded by

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the soles of those who had opened the door before me.

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As the room closed in my vision blurred, my mind

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sparling to madness, the whispers intensified, the walls pressing against me.

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I knew deep down that I was no longer in

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the hospital, this place, this realm, something entirely else. I

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could feel the shadows closing in on me, could hear

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the figure's voices growing louder. You opened the door. You

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are ours now. But then, in the haze of my mind,

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a thought emerged, a way out the door. It wasn't

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just the door to this place, it was the door

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to escape. I fought against the chair's grips, summoning every

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ounce of strength I had left. With the final scream,

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I pushed myself forward, my hand reaching out for something, anything,

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the moments my fingers brushed against the edge of the

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door frame. The world shifted again, the shadows receded, the

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air lightened. I gasped for breath as the pressure around

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me lifted, the room vanishing into darkness. I awoke in

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my hospital bed, gasping for air. My body was drenched

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in sweat, my heart pounding in my chest. The stirl

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white walls were back, the quiet hum of the machines

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grounding me in reality. For a moment, I thought it

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was all the nightmare. But when I looked at my hands,

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I saw something that made my blood run cold, dark

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shifting marks on my skin, as if something had crawled

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beneath the surface. My heart sank as I realized the

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truth I had never truly left. I had opened the

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door and it had followed me. Jeez