/authors/blueskybound/ Recent content in Blueskybound on Utopia Stories Library Hugo en-us /stories/16902/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /stories/16902/ <p><strong>Chapter 1</strong></p> <p>Swirling images. Dark. Silence. Daytime? Nighttime? Should I be somewhere?</p> <p>Eyes, opening. Darkness still.</p> <p>It must still be early morning, she thought to herself. Plenty of time to sleep, to rest, to &hellip;</p> <p>That dream! She could only recall bits of it, fragments of memory as if it took place eons ago, the way dream memories usually are. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to block out the images that floated behind her closed lids and drift back to the sleep from which she had awoken.</p>