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2024-10-29 19:42:56It was now lunch and she had been sitting in the cafeteria while Livy and their best friend Lydia were talking about something, whatever it was Helena didn't think it was very important. This was that time of the day where she would shut off her brain and just lose herself in the sea voices and concentrate on nothing and everything all at once. It didn't make sense to her when she thought about it but she did it anyways because it was the only way she was able to get through lunch. The food was horrible and her friends didn't talk about anything interesting. So, she would get lost in her thoughts, but today something was different. Whenever she closed her eyes, she swore she was seeing the world from the perspective of something or someone else. It was weird, because whatever she was seeing was through the eyes of someone in the school. It looked like a hallway, possibly the southwest portion of the school.
"If you stay quiet over there any longer, I'm going to
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