Everything starts with her teeth quaking to each other. She doesn’t know whether she’s having a cold, or an attack. She finds it’s tough to determine. Nora looks around, tries to look for someone who can ease her. Soon enough, her jaws need some rests, but she can’t even control her own body. She shivers a little bit, more, when she’s trying to reach the doorknob. The moment she turns it, a light strikes her mind. An image of a man appears in front of her eyes. That, a strangely familiar man, stops her for a while. She gazes into the blank air space; sometimes, reaches out to grasp something; her eyes are eerily wide big opened. Then other images flash in her mind: the hand of someone presses her against the table on her shoulder; she sees herself trying to fight back, grappling with a man twice as big as her. She can hear herself shrieking like an old, dying bird.
As soon as she walks out of her room, she faces a long, empty hallway that she was unsure if she could make it to the bathroom. Her stomach feels hollow, yet, like an amusement park. It keeps on
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The doctor grips Nora’s fragile shoulder. Nora swings like a kite in a typhoon.
I am telling you! Stay away from me!
Nora’s face reflects a shade of vermillion. She groans. The dark light strikes her mind again; a man suddenly is on top of her, kissing Nora passionately, “stop touching me. I say stops...” Tears rush out of her almond eyes; Nora looks up; she sees what makes her even more frightened, her master – who owned her as a slave. Hearing what Nora has just mumbled, the doctor finally gathers his last piece. He asks Jane to have a conversation with him outside. Jane doesn’t really want to close the door, and leaves her friend behind. The thumping steps of them end with harsh slam of the woody door.
Nora is alone. “I am tough, and smart. I must find a way to deal with myself”, she often remind herself like that when she is awake. Her eyes no longer display a discontent