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EXT. - THE BEACH - NIGHT

She ran, stumbling over her bare feet, the heavy sand pulling at her, dragging her back. Heat shimmered from the depths of the coarse whiteness, though the sun was long set over the beach.

Her knees hit the surface, digging into the sharp edge of a shell, but she didn't scream as her blood flowed from the slice in her pale flesh. Couldn't past the pounding in her head, the pain it caused her to draw a breath. Her whole body ...