Grace How long had I been here? Time had stopped making sense. Nothing made sense at this point anymore. Between the screaming, the suffocating silence and the tears…. I don’t even know. I don’t even know how many times that I have passed out at this point… Was I lucid, was I not? I did not even know. All I knew that whenever I opened my eyes, it felt like waking into a worse version of the same nightmare. I couldn’t tell what was real anymore. Was I thinking clearly? Was any of this actually happening, or had my mind finally broken under the weight of it all? The questions circled endlessly, feeding on themselves until I couldn’t separate one thought from the next. I tried to focus on something simple. Something solid. My hands. That’s right. I could feel them. I think. My fin

