M., if I could sleep at all.The insomnia got worse. It’d grown malignant. I’d have to take Xanax, every night, otherwise I couldn’t sleep a wink...It wasn’t only me. Marco, the others, they’d been looking rough as well, their complexions sallow...I was starting to believe the school itself to be a ghost or maybe a vampire that was sucking away our collective life force, cruelly drinking away our vitality and sleep...Marco told me after breakfast that the lecture stage in his classroom collapsed. As their eyes adjusted to the darkness suddenly there was movement near them. Kathy gasped as she saw a young woman enter an opulent bedroom decorated in red."I'm sorry," stammered Kathy, "We didn't... uh... know... well... we... ah." Kathy frantically tried to think of an alibi when suddenly she realized that the young woman was not responding."There's a window there," said Rex. "We can see her, but apparently she can't see or hear us. This is too fucking weird."Suddenly a light appeared. "She gulped. "Really Doctor Chester?" You can choose to walk out too..."I watched as she awkwardly reached for the bottle and began nursingfrom it. She was awkwardly fighting with getting the flow out for awhile as the bottle looked much smaller in her hands than mine. Theblush on her cheeks was quite gratifying to watch, even as you couldsee her eyes watering and tracks forming from her mascara. Finally,she emptied the bottle to their satisfaction and looked even moreembarrassed as she burped. I don’t have my phone. I left my cellphone behind and borrowed a stationary phone long enough to make the call.”“I’ll admit,” Robert said, “when we picked him up, I discovered him hiding in the far corner of the restroom with the lights turned off.”“Big surprise, he plans his lies in advance.”Eric glanced up, squinting and only opening one eye, waving at the table. “Unplug the microphone and study it. If you take it apart, I guarantee you’ll discover loose wires.”“Yeah, and we’re supposed to.