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Vivian

"Mummy!"

"No, please! Don't go!" I cried, my voice echoing into the darkness. The figure, so small and distorted, was slipping away from me, floating further into the dark void. I tried to run, my hands moving before my body, but I was stuck!

I tried to move some more, but unseen forces pulled me down, my feet sinking into an invisible pool of darkness that continued to pull me down, my heart dropping into the pit of my stomach. Panic gripped my heart, and tears blurred my vision.

“Mummy!! please!” the image screamed, and I knew I had to fight to get out of this mist, to get out of this sinking feeling that created darkness beneath my feet.

But the more I struggled to free myself, the more I got pulled under and tears started to fall freely. "Baby?” I screamed, but got no response. “Mu..mmy,” the voice died into a fading echo, and I fought my way out of it, but the moment I emerged, I witnessed the image get sucked into the void and there was nothing left.

“No!!” I screamed, but