Shattered images. Distant screams. Agonizing pain. Her dreams consist of only these. As she sleeps, she falls. As she turns and tosses on her bed, she lets out murmers for help. Her body, covered in sweat, is tangled in the sheets. Trapping her. Suffocating her. Her dreams are confusing, difficult to interpret. Is she dreaming of her past? Are those memories? Or are the just dreams. Dreams and nothing else. She isn’t sure. They seem so real. So real.
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Most nights she wonders if she’ll ever be able to sleep peacefully and wake up without fear. Sometimes she wonders how it’ll be like to sleep peacefully and never wake. To sleep forever. No dreams. Nothing. To even think of it makes her smile. How lovely would that be, now? How lovely… Her eyes close and she falls again. There she is, a perfect Alice. But there was no Wonderland. There never would be. Not for pretty little Alice.
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