<span style="font-style: italic">Sleep lightly, child. For your enemies never sleep.</span><br/>Cinder Lihn awoke to silence. She sat up and was instantly overcome by worry. When you live in a house with a younger sister and brother silence was never a good thing. She got dressed warily and she cracked open the door. When she peeked through the crack nothing happened. Now she was more worried about where everyone was. " Mom? Sarah? Jay? Step?" she called out into the hall. She walked out and felt her heart clench with apprehension. " Guys. This isn't funny." Cinder said. She walked into the living room, her stomach twisting. She went over to the clock and saw it flashing zeroes. " What the?" She picked it up and tried to reset it. It continued to flash zeroes. " That's odd." She went to the TV and turned it on. It wasn't any show or even static. It was a low constant hum. " What is going on?" She said to no one specific. She pushed the power button, but the TV stayed on. She pushed it harder. " What in the beep is going on here?!" she cried out in confusion. " If this is some kind of sick prank I've had enough of it! You guys need to stop right now!" she yelled out.<br/>After a few minutes of the humming, Cinder walked outside. She was beginning to panic. What had happened to her family. She looked at the sky. It was plain; no beginning; no end; just... sky. Cinder started to breath heavily for a reason she didn't recognize for a second. " W-what is going on?" she whimpered under her breath. She sat by her garage and tried to slow her breathing. After a minute or two, she could feel her breathing steadying. She suddenly heard the low hum that had come from the TV. " Wha-?" she muttered before standing. She walked inside. She felt... weird. She couldn't explain it. It was like she was suffocating. Not in the space, but in time itself. She began to breath heavily again. ' Calm down. Nothing is wrong. They probably just went to the store,' she thought,' But without a note?' Cinder shook her head and sat on the couch. When she had calmed herself she felt tired for some reason. She yawned and spread out on the couch. ' Just a few minutes won't hurt, I guess,' she thought and fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.