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October Chapter 135: The dread
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Lying down, weak and helpess on her carpet, Lila let herself drift off into a land of darkness where she was left only semi aware of the world around her.
She was in the dark, with one arm thrown out away from her body, hanging over the edge of the boat that she was on, her fingers just barely grazing the water below her. She heard everything that was happening around her, from the rain storm outside her bedroom window, the laughter and banging of pots and pans downstairs, and the highly irritable, scary, and distressing fact that Lila had forgotten to barricade her bedroom door away from her mother.
However, at the same time, the world that Lila was in came with it's own environment, from the gentle rocking which sometimes occasionally blew up into tumultuous and temptestuous waves of the storm inside her chest whenever she lost focus and her mind wandered to the outside, but, no matter what, somehow through the moments of rollercoaster action, fundementally calm.
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