With its grim grin the lights warm and dim. It’s like candlelight without the obnoxious flickering, and just the slightest sway. The tone of the r...om seems to change with the light, and my whole experience has become vaguely musical. Almost like it’s trying to soothe me and keep me going. I’m getting edged by many-tentacled metallic beast. If someone had asked me at really any time before I came here if something like that would ever happen, I would have laughed at the absurdity. As would. The reason that the government even cared was to boast that it was a citizen of earth who survived."Hello Mary, you're looking nice today." The contrast of the cheerful voice with his bitter memories jarred him. For a moment, the past overlaid the present. The horror of his double vision threatened to make him void his stomach. He pulled back from the precipice before loosing control.A very cheerful female voice answered, "Thanks, Fred. How are you doing, Terry?"The other man, sounding as if he. When he felt he could risk a glance, Thomas was amazed to see a woman in a gray robe and hood standing in the doorway, holding up a lantern as bright as the sun. She’d covered it slightly with her hand, but even now it left dazzled spots in Thomas’ eyes. And the woman seemed to nod at him, although the movement was so slight it might not have happened at all. Then she said, “You shouldn’t be here.”Thomas stammered. “I…I didn’t…”But it was Aurelia who answered: “It’s not fair,” she said. Her. Stephanie had been sleeping for a little while when she heard someone walking down the hardwood floor hallway from the back of the house. She was so tired, she wasnt sure if she was dreaming or if she was awake. She lay there listening with her eyes open even though she could not see much from the red light coming from her digital clock. After listening and looking towards the ceiling for what felt like an eternity, she heard her doorknob turning ever so slowly and quietly. Oh Shit! she.