I woke up in the corner.

"Ouch"

My body was in pain, it appeared as if I cried myself to sleep.

I stood up and looked at the mirror.

"Haha, I look horrible" I said to myself.

I still hadn't forgotten about the hell that I've experienced last night. But after that sleep I've been feeling better and wanted to put my mind somewhere else.

I looked outside the window. It appears to still be nighttime.

"How many hours did I sleep?" I murmured

All I thought about was surviving this hellhole.

I sat down in the bed and started thinking about my plan for today. I've been feeling hungry and thirsty since I woke up, and I need to go somewhere safe. But where?

I stood up and tried to open the door but I suddenly stopped.

"Wha-"

My hand was shaking.

"Haha, should I just stay here?" I thought to myself as I held my shaking hands together.

"Yeah, if I just stay here maybe someone will come save me." I said to myself.

"For sure, at least the police are coming right?" As I try to convince myself. Shaking, as I sat back down.

These are just wishful thinkings. This is not fantasy. Thinking back to that moment, this was very cowardly of me. But as I was a naive nineteen year old girl back then, it was all i could hope for. I didn't know what to do. All I could do was ask for help. I was not thinking logically and did nothing but cower.

All these stress made me faint once again.

I woke up in the bed. My body feels sluggish as I have yet to drink or eat. It was almost at the dangerous levels of hunger and thirst.

I had a dilemma. To stay here and die of thirst and hunger.

Or To go outside and try to find help.

This time there was no shaking at the thought of going outside. It was all about survival at this point.

"I'd rather have a tiny chance surviving than die alone in this room"

I came out of the room with a weak body, looking for any chances of survival.

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I walked, not even thinking about anything but survival.

I walked, looking for every chance to live

I walked, trying to survive in this hell on earth.

It was a walk that felt like forever.

"Ah"

I stumbled into what looks to be like a decrypt building. At this point, I was barely able to walk properly. But I was keeping myself awake. Just for the chance of even seeing a person.

And my prayers were answered.

"Finally" I thought to myself.

I saw a person. I finally saw a person. I was relieved.

It was then where the last of my strength withered. I fell down the ground unable to move.

3.2

"Look! It's snowing!"

A child was running in the snow.

"Dad! Dad! let's make a snowman!"

The child was pulling her father in the snow, seemingly having fun.

"Haha, what should we put in it's face hikari?"

"A Carrot!" The child answered proudly.

Ah, it's my memories.

"Good girl! I'm proud of you."

The father held the child and headpatted her, seemingly proud of his child.

"That tickles dad." The child was laughing along.

"Now get some carrots in the kitchen while I create some snowman okay hikari?"

"Yes dad!" As the child ran in the house.

The father was diligently creating the snowmans just for his child.

"Dad...." I was reminiscing my memories with my father. But all of a sudden, my view of the memories was blurring.

"Wait!" I was terrified

"Dad wait! Take me with you!" I shouted with all my might. It felt like it was the only time I would see my father again.

And the memory disappeared.

"DAD!" I shouted as I woke up. My hands were stretched up as to try and reach something unreachable.

I wiped the tears in my eyes and tried to calm down. As I calmed down, I noticed the new place that I was in.

I looked around, this place looked better than the first place I woke up in. Although not that much better. As I realized that I was in a completely different place, I tensed up. As I was in a completely unknown place.

"Where am I?" I murmured to myself.

Whilst I was looking around in my bed, someone came in and opened the door.

"Ah, figured it's about time you woke up." A completely unknown person suddenly talked to me.

"Here, I bought you some food. You looked like you haven't eaten in days" as he gave me the plate.

The plate had stale bread and some soup. Not ideal but at this point I would eat anything. I ate a lot as I was very hungry.

"Whoa, you're hungrier than I thought" He said as he sat down.

I didn't mind him since I wasn't thinking and was eating as much as I could.

"Calm down, no one's gonna take your food. You can eat slowly"

As I heard that I stopped chowing down my food, calmed down and just nodded. This time I ate slowly.

As I finished eating my food he gave me some water, which I took and drank quietly.

"So are you good?"

I nodded

"So.... Can't you talk?" He asked

I was still cautious of him despite him giving me food, so I was very quiet around him.

"I can" I murmured

"So you can speak. That's good. So is your body fine?"

I nodded.

"So you won't speak to me huh?" He spoke as if he's disappointed.

"Well, you should get some more rest. after all, you just woke up from fainting. Well, I'll get out of your way now"

He stood up and walked to go outside. But I needed to ask some questions so I toughed up and called him.

"Wait!" I exclaimed.

"I need to ask something"

The guy turned around as if expecting me "well, you're ready to talk? Ask me anything."

"Um, what place is this" I asked

"Wait, you came here without knowing what place this is?" He was flabbergasted.

"Well...." I was about to explain what happened when he cut me off.

"Well, don't worry. At least you're safe in this place" he smiled at me, as he opened the window view.

We were inside the building, but it was bright. The inside rooms became makeshift homes. And there are people walking around as if this place was peaceful.

"Wha-"I was surprised.

He grinned. "Welcome to camp corin, stranger"