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Mon May 31, 2021 4:34 am
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The Gallery


Today was special. A day of decisions. Some big choice weighs on your shoulders, spinning in your mind until you lose your footing. However, the floor onto which you fall is not the one on which you stood a moment before. Behind you, the glass-like surface of a window ripples, like the surface of a pond you just fell through, before quickly hardening. Through it you see the scene you just left, though frozen - no, not frozen. Time still moves beyond the window, just at an agonizing crawl.

Set into a plaque at the top of the window's elegant gold frame is a number, similar to the window after window, all marked in numerical order, that stretch endlessly out on either side. White tile floors and wallpapered walls gives the maze of halls a mock elegant appearance. As though someone had attempted to make a personality devoid grocery store into an elegant vintage mansion on a budget.

You've hardly had time to right yourself before the pattering of footsteps approaches from the side. You see no one, however, but your arm is yanked out. Before you can react, your sleeve has been pushed back, the number of your window scrawled on your arm in messy black digits, and the pattering retreats onward down the hall.

Around the corner, you hear voices.

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