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EDEN

I was running.

What I was running from, I had no idea. As my heart beat fast in my chest, I looked behind me to see whether whatever it was that was after me was still chasing me but it wasn't.

So why was I still running? I tried to slow down but my legs won't stop moving on their own.

“What the hell?” I thought to myself.

My leg hit a stone and I fell in a puddle of water. As I lifted myself up, my eyes met with the image in the water.

That was it. I was running from myself but whose face was that in the pool?

Whose face was I wearing?

I woke up with a jolt, the same way my heart had been beating in the dream was the same way it was beating right now.

What the hell was that?

And what the hell had happened?

More importantly, where was I?

Different objects hung from the ceiling, some of them shaped like birds and some shapes like things I hadn't seen before.

How did I fall asleep and end up here?

Last thing I remembered was seeing the dead man and running away. The fact that