Insane: A Narrative Fiction

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I woke up feeling weird, like everything I had been through was a dream. Looking around I saw my old room, in the house we all shared before i left.... But what was weird was that raven, he was sleeping in my bed holding my down by my waist. The moment i sat up, he looked up at me, his eyes were gone all that was left were black holes, dripping with what looked like black blood. The sight of this made my skin crawl, quickly grabbing erendil to keep distance between us. He kept walking forward, piercing himself with my blade, 'why would he do something like that i'm tired of this make it stop!' Dropping the blade i ran out into the halls screaming my lungs out, the others came out to see what was wrong, but they all had the same face as raven.

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