You opened your eyes and the first thing you see is a ceiling you never have seen before. It has a different colour, it's white but not quite, it has a little shade of yellow in it.

It's hard to describe for you, you just know it looks old. Looking down with your head you notice your blanket that has many geometric shapes on it. Cubes that look 3D but aren't, yet somehow it feels they are going beyond the third dimension. You start to feel dizzy because the more you look at it, it moves and changes shapes. You look around thinking to yourself, what am I doing in this place? It's an old hospital room, with lights that are buzzing like hundreds of flies. All the beds are empty only you are lying on one of them. There is a light that is coming from behind the curtains, it must be the morning you think to yourself. Standing up from the bed you notice your clothes, white skirt that is whiter than the ceiling, sky blue t-shirt and on your head a nurse cap. You look for some little mirror in the bedside table, and you find it, it's not bigger than your palm, in it you see a beautiful girl. Straight black hair reaching your cheeks, eyes in which a forest is hiding, and thin lips.

Why was a nurse lying on a hospital bed? Were you perhaps sleepy and took a nap or something unfortunate happened to you?

You can't seem to remember, you can't remember when you were born, what's your name and what is your favourite colour. Maybe there is someone who can help you recollect your memories outside the room, so you walk out to the hallway. There is no one, it's as empty as the room you woke up in but this one has more buzzing lights. The hallway is full of hospital benches and the floor reflects the lights. Looking around you can only go to the right or the left, on both ends of the hallway are the same looking double doors. Now which way to go? Right is an obvious choice so you decide to go the left. As you walk you can hear your steps echoing through the hallway, it makes you feel paranoid as if somebody is following you. No matter how many times you turn around there is no one, what would you do if there was someone? You know you are not much of a runner.

You reach the double door and open them, there is another long hallway similar to the one you were before but there is one difference. There are windows on the right side, from them you can see a white vastness of nothing. It goes to what seems like an infinity maybe even beyond.

Where is this place?

What is happening?

Who are you?

You ask yourself many questions yet you can't answer them. You put your right hand on the window and try to sort out everything in your head. But something keeps you interrupting, it's that light on the end of the hallway. It keeps flickering and the sounds it makes is irritating but suddenly it exploded and orange sparks of electricity slowly fell on the floor. Then you heard something coming from downstairs, a loud voice saying something. You can't quite make up what it is so you decide to go and see for yourself. You reach the same looking double door again but next to them is a sign that shows stairs. Opening the doors reveals stairs leading down, they are hidden in darkness that seems to whisper something into your ear. You turn on the lights and walk downstairs, unsurprisingly there is another hallway on the end. You look around but can't see anyone who could make that noise. There was another flickering light above opened double doors at the end of the hallway, it flickered and a man in his 30s appeared under it. His black hair divided to the left and the right on his nose a pair of round glasses. Around his neck, a long scarf with two colours, dark red and light red, a trench coat in the colour of the mud buttoned up to down reaching his stomach and the last a black pants with white stripes.

-You are Sally I presume.-

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Do you know him? Maybe you did. Your brain is toying with you and won't let you see your past. He starts walking towards you in a fast manner. You ask him if he is a doctor in this hospital.

-Who? No, I am too unqualified for a job like that.-

Who is he? You keep asking yourself. You ask him if he knows you.

-No, not really. I am just a traveller.-

You start asking him a lot of questions. How does he know your name? Where are you?

-Slow down, lady. Try to breathe deeply.-

You do as he says. One deep breath then a second and a couple more. Suddenly a scream of pain comes from the opposite side of the hallway where you two are standing. It sounds like a male and female at the same time.

-We got no time for this! We have to hide!-

He grabs you by the hand and leads you to one of the rooms in the hallway. This room is similar to the one you woke up in every sense but you don't care about it. What you care about is what was that thing in the hallway.

-Okay, okay. I know, you want answers so let me start then. Who am I? My name is Thomas M. nice to meet you!-

You shook hands with him uncertain if this is the good time for formalities like this.

-How did I know your name? Well, that is easy to answer. You have a name tag right here.-

He points at the right side of your chest. You start to feel dumb because you didn't notice it before.

-Where are we? I know about this place as much as you do. I know this is a hospital and we are somewhere, I presume.-

You start thinking if all of this isn't just a dream and that Thomas M. is just a part of it.

-And the last question. What was that thing outside? Well, I meet these creatures before. They take on a form of whatever it is you fear. So I simply called them the walking fear.-

Now you start thinking about it hard. This must be a dream you say to yourself many times. Maybe you left your TV on and you are still hearing the voices from the TV. Thomas comes close towards you and pinches you on the right hand. Ouch! You say out loud and ask him why did he do that.

-Just to prove that this isn't a dream. This is something more complicated...-

You both start to think hard but you are interrupted by a loud bang at the door.

-Oh no, it's trying to get in!-

Hiding under the bed is the only place you both thought of. As you lie under the bed you notice little drops falling from above you. Looking up you see a massacred dead body without skin and it's eyes open wide. You start to scream from fear and Thomas shuts your mouth with his hand. The walking fear destroyed the door thankfully after you stopped screaming. If you were to scream now you would be dead in a matter of seconds. The walking fear is looking around the room, you can see its legs, there are many of them. They are humanoid legs in hellish anatomies and monstrous look. Its sound is even worse, male and female screams of pain that seem to never end. You start to sweat and breath uncontrollably, Thomas feels similar, his hands are getting sweaty on your mouth. The walking fear is walking around the room sniffing every corner, it stops near the bed you both are hiding under. It's going around, sniffing and slowly walking. Suddenly a loud noise comes from the hallway and the walking fear rushes out of the room. You can feel your tears coming down your cheeks, they are tears of mixed emotions. You both come out from under the bed and Thomas gives you a handkerchief.

-Here, wipe your tears with this.-

You are irritated and anxious so you punch him to his stomach with all your guts. You look at him with an angry and serious face while he is trying to catch his breath.

-What was that for?!-

You turn around and raise the mattress. Showing Thomas what's underneath it. He just stares at you confused, uncertain you look too and there is nothing. The dead body is gone and now you're trying to explain it to him.

-You saw what?! I didn't notice anything.-

Thomas was now finally able to breathe, he was standing still and thinking.

-As I said, this might be more than just a mere dream...-

You started to apologize for punching him.

-Now, be quiet. I am trying to think... Did you hear a sound before you meet me?-

You explained to him what happened before you meet him.

-Interesting, something similar happened to me. I, too heard a sound coming from the hallway, I came to check it and I meet you. The same happened just now, there was a sound and the walking fear chase after it... I think there might be something bigger at play here.-

You start to think about this possibility too.

-Well, cmon Sally! We have to see for ourselves what it is chasing.-

Thomas rushes out of the room leaving you behind. You yell at him to wait but he doesn't seem to slow down.