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Last night, you were a queen. Your kingdom was dark and rocky but it was warm and inviting. It was your home and you loved every single rock and blade of grass. You would walk through the caverns with golden foot steps that faded in your wake. The springs that drip through the walls and ceilings were your orchestra and you slipped through the rock pillars like a snake in familiar territory. It is everything you've ever wanted. The colors on the walls mimicked the happiness in your heart and you smeared on another shade to complete the portrait. You gazed upon it but it made you sad. There, painted upon the slab rock, is the one thing that you are missing.
You wake up.
Tonight, your children are sick. They cry and sweat and you cannot keep up with how much cold presses they need. The stress accumulates until you are weeping in the corner and the ground is melting under you. There is an ocean there and you sink and sink until everything goes blue then black and you think to yourself, this must be what death feels like. You hit white cubes and you lay there until something is pulling you up and then you are sad again. So very sad. Not for your children, but for yourself. There is something you lack and you cannot seem to find it.
You don't want to sleep anymore. There is nothing for you there but a feeling of doubt and emptiness that you do not want to be reminded of.
Rolling over to your computer, you open it up and log on and smile softly at the glowing light.
-- carcinoGeneticist [CG] began pestering arsenicCatnip [AC] --