A Gift?

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She walked calmly as if nothing bothered her. The creatures that prowls in her dream. The stench, like an unpleasant perfume, clung to her senses. Yet she remained unperturbed as she walked to the narrower hall. They kept coming. They are crowding her thoughts and filling her dreams. Seeing them was a curse.

"A curse, I wanted disappear", she said silently.

Others may think it as a gift, a peculiar talent. But then they can't see them. Those creatures. A shiver run to her spine as one of them got closer to her. It's formless and it's huge eye stared curiously at her, as if testing her. It sluggishly advanced to her, but she walked briskly—not letting the creature shorten the gaps of spaces between them.

With her heart pounding she continued walking, and suddenly the bell rang. She continued walking but stopped when she felt its presence disappear. She thought it's just a ruse.

Yet when she looked back, it's gone.

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