After making her way back to the church and finding a way back over the fence Eden went to her room where she collapsed onto her bed. She didn't understand how she had grown so tired; if it was from wandering around in the cold, or the stress of all that had been going on in her life in the past few days. As she lied on the bed staring at the ceiling in the faint glimmer of moonlight that shone through the window she felt her eyes grow heavy. She began to close her eyes off and on until finally she couldn't open them any longer.
It was then that a massive blackness flooded her room and she felt a heavy weight on her chest. She struggled to move, but was unsuccessful. As the weight pressed down on her lungs she found each breath becoming exceedingly hard to take and her limbs began to lose strength. She was defenseless…helpless. She made one final attempt with all her energy to scream for help. As a barely noticeable sound finally escaped her lips she felt a slight hope. Finally she burst free of her restraints. Sitting straight up in her bed staring into the blackness she felt something was wrong. Something was in the room with her; something evil; something that wanted to do her harm. She looked all around the room and saw nothing.
Rising from her bed she cautiously walked over to the door. As she reached for the doorknob she stopped startled by a noise in the room. Slowly turning to look back she noticed a dark mass on her bed. She took a deep breath and hesitantly began walking back towards the bed. As she got closer her anxiety grew; her heart pounded in her chest. Though her hands were trembling she reached for the pile of blankets on her bed and was startled when they began to move on their own. As she jumped back a couple steps she realized there was a figure lying in her bed. Turning to face her, the figure began to grin delighting in her fear, bearing shiny silver teeth through pale cracked lips. She stood staring at the creature in her bed filled with fear, trying to scream, but no sound rose from her throat.
As the terror rose inside of her and she felt that she would not be able to escape she suddenly opened her eyes. The light from the moon was bouncing off the walls filling the room and she realized she was still lying in her bed. There was no inescapable darkness, no strange creature in her bed. It was another nightmare; another warning. This was not the demon she had faced before, it was something else; something new. It was then that she finally realized that there was something big going on. Bigger than anything she had ever known, bigger than dreams or nightmares, bigger than bitter rivalries and false notions of fairytale endings, bigger than social statuses and material objects, bigger than herself. This was a fight for her soul that she was not prepared for.