*Caterina*

I had a dream that night.

I was standing in an empty room, with walls that seemed to reach upward to impossible heights and no windows or doors. It was dark, no lights around me, and I was alone.

I knew it was a dream, but I couldn’t move, like there were chains that had come from the ground and wrapped around my body. I kept struggling against the invisible hold, but it was useless.

I was trapped.

Then I began to hear ...