A truth that she scribbled hastily but firmly, pressing deep into the paper with the nib, in capital letters, in the first-person present tense.
A truth that was the beginning and seed of everything possible.
A former curse and a present blessing. Three simple words containing the power and potential of a multiverse.
I AM ALIVE. And with that, the ground shook like fury and every last remnant of the Midnight Library dissolved into dust.
Awakening
At one minute and twenty-seven seconds after midnight, Nora Seed marked her emergence back into life by vomiting all over her duvet.
Alive, but hardly. Choking, exhausted, dehydrated, struggling, trembling, heavy, delirious,
pain in her chest, even more pain in her head, this was the worst life could feel,
and yet it was life, and life was precisely what she wanted.
It was hard, near impossible, to pull herself off the bed but she knew she had to get vertical.
She managed it, somehow, and grabbed her phone but it seemed too heavy and slippy to keep a grasp of and it fell onto the floor beyond view.
“Help,” she croaked, staggering out of the room. Her hallway seemed to be tilting like it was a ship in a storm.
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