One step closer.

Faith could feel the cold snipping at her bare feet while she tried to sleep. She was reaching for her blanket with her eyes still closed when she felt cold, hard steel where her favourite blanket should be. Her eyes shot open to see that she wasn’t in bed, she wasn’t even at home. There she was laying on a train bench in her pjs with the morning air surrounding her. Her vision was cloudy and her head was spinning wildly. She didn’t know how she got here, let alone where here was. She turned to try see what the words on the sign said but as much as she tried reading out the words, she just couldn’t. She must of still been half asleep because she couldn’t stop the letter from jumping all of the place and looking like it was switching back from English then to a different language. She laughed to her self. “I’ve must of slept walked all the way down to the train station” Since Faith was young she would usually find herself in strange places after waking up. When she was young it was always around the house but as she got older, She would find herself further and further away from home. Since she was 14 she would always put shoes on just in case she would wonder outside. She hadn’t had a sleep walking episode since she was 18 and that was 4 years ago, so she was a little surprised to find herself at the train station. Faith rubbed her eyes to clear her vision to look around and she was stunned. Too stunned to speak. She was not in her city. She wasn’t even in a city she recognised. She turned once again to the sign to read the city’s name only to see that it was indeed in a different language. “Is that Korean? No it’s Japanese.” She thought while confused. Panic and fear started to arise in her stomach. “This must be a dream. There’s no way I could be in Japan right now” Haven didn’t know the first thing about Japan. She started pinched herself hard to see if she was dreaming. “This is just a dream, pain will wake me up” she thought to herself. She pinched at her thigh until it was turning red and bruised. So she tried slapping herself but people started to watch her with confusion spread across their face, so she stopped completely. Thousands of thoughts flew through her mind like busy bees. “How did she get here? Why was she here? What time is? How was she going to get home?” That was just some of the thoughts but the biggest was. “What was she going to do?” She was in a whole different country with no money, no passport, no shoes and no clue. She was so wrapped up in her own thoughts until she heard a scream. Adrenaline spread throughout her body and she shot up off the seat to see where the scream came from. Further down the station was a crowd standing close the edge and looking down at the tracks. Not knowing what to expect. Faith ran toward the crowd to see if she could do anything to help. When she got to the crowd, there was a man down on the tracks trying to pick up a women who looked like she had fainted and fallen in. Faith jump down to give the man a hand. He was a well built man that was in his late 40s, He looked like he knew what he was doing but the agent in Faith couldn’t stand by and do nothing. The man had one of the woman’s arm placed on his shoulder and one of his arms place on her back and the other one under her legs. The woman was still unconscious and had a slight cut on her eyebrows, right in the corner. Faith brushed the woman’s hair out of her face then placed her arms around the woman just how the man did. The man looked at Faith and spoke. “3*で*たちは*きていける？” Haven couldn’t understand but she nodded anyways. The man spoke again. “Ichi, two, three. LIFT.” In that spilt second Faith understood what the man meant. They both had the woman waist high when the crowd started to scream and yell. Haven started to panic when she realised what the were screaming about. The train was coming and the man knew it too cause he had panic painted in his face. Haven knew what she had to do. She grabbed the woman from the man and yelled for the man to get on the platform. She had to yell at him twice for him to finally understand. The other passengers helped the man up onto the platform and then they were yelling to Haven to hurry up with the woman. The train was close, just moments away and panic had found a home in Faith’s body. Faith rushed to push the lady onto the platform and with the help of the others passengers she got the woman on the platform safely. In that moment of pure panic and adrenaline, the woman’s eyes opened and she stared them right into Faith’s soul. They were earthly coloured but they seem to carry the heavens in them and that shook Haven to her very core. Faith was in a trance and she thought nothing would be able to take her out of it until the whistle of the train broke their glance and they diverted their gaze to the train instead. There was nothing anyone could do in that moment. The train was already on Faith’s heels but just before the train could end Faith’s whole existence. She heard something. Something sweet, an angelic voice wrapped in fear and panic. “FAITH JUMP!”