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Regaining consciousness didn’t bring me any relief. I opened my eyes to find the leaves above me were growing longer and as I watched, they transformed into slithering green snakes that reached down toward my face... I screamed and tried to roll out of their path, with no success, and heard laughter to my left. I managed to look in that direction and saw the ugly men that I’d seen before. I wondered if they were real. I couldn’t be sure. They were still there...
No... Nothing was real.
To my right I could make out the shapes of people. I tried to look at them properly, but could only move my eyes in their general direction. Maybe it was the group of people I saw before I’d passed out, but I really didn’t have any idea.
My mind was reeling, trying to gain some sort of control. My hea
