Edit Part I
2004-02-08 - 11:12 p.m.

EDIT Part I

When I Sleep [changes I made to the shop scene with Hayden and the shopkeeper]

She paused for a moment and found herself in that familiar, frozen state-Why did it always happen like this?

The first time she had been only seven. Her mother had taken her to the park and after planting her daughter there, an odd sort of human rose, crossed the street to the bank without even a word of caution. Alone now as she ever was, Hayden sought out the reliable company of some leaves and ravens squabbling under a big oak tree. She approached slowly not wanting to scare the creatures, her eyes focused on the oil slick cluster and beaded raindrop eyes-when in mid-step she froze completely. Every muscle and every nerve throbbed and stiffened, and while they did the world around her melted and fizzled, all the colors inverted, and what was left was a hideous x-ray of everything. After that Hayden stopped going to the park, in fact anywhere she didn’t have to go. But the thing followed her everywhere, even to school. Soon the world was so frightening and ugly that even the vague desire to do things deserted her--tiny things like breathing, putting on her shoes, or just seeing the world normally in hues of brown, green, blue, red-grew incredibly tiresome.

Time, though, provided the cures to her strange troubles, and she learned how to fight her visions, how to give in to them, how to run from them, and eventually, how to see beyond the boundaries of sight. Hayden folded into herself slowly so as to stall the inevitable-Looked outward at the strangeness. There was something here, that was right here, right now, that she should be noticing…And she knew this, all of it, without knowing…

yesterday - tomorrow