Asteria:
This incessant darkness. I don't know how long I have been like this, and it seems like forever. I feel entirely lost to the world. I am completely surrounded by darkness. I can't seem to move. My eyes were so heavy, and I couldn't seem to open them no matter how hard I tried. I could feel myself aching all over. My wrist hurt the most. I wished I could move them. I wished I could stop the horrible pain throughout my body. But, as much I tried to wake, it wouldn't work. I couldn't remember why I was sleeping. I was supposed to be getting ready for the ball tonight. Mother is going to be so angry if I don't attend. I need to wake, and I must get prepared. This was the first ball of the social season. Lucky this would be the last social season that my mother would force me to att
