Lily's eyes shot open as the screams penetrated her already fearsome dreams. It was the same every night, cries and howls that filled the halls of the sanatarium. Haunting the dreams of the patients that tried to rest. For Lily, the nightmares were not strangers, though these had even her crying into her pillow. Praying that whatever, or whoever caused them would never come to her. Sitting up she looked around the dark cell, her eyes trailing to her only source of light, the moon which was obscured by the bars upon her window.<br/><br/>She'd never tried to escape, there'd be no point. It would only mean they'd proven their diagnosis. She didn't want that. Brushing her blond locks from her face she looked to the outline of the door, dimly lit. There'd be no way she could sleep not now, she'd been here two years and always found the dark haunting and impossible to sleep in. But that was how it seemed they liked it, easier to control them with the fear of the dark, of the halls. Sometimes she was convinced their diagnosis was right, but she wasn't paranoid, she wasn't deluded.<br/><br/>She'd heard the screams, others heard them too, had nightmares, they had to. It wasn't as though she were the only one, right? One night, when she'd first arrived she'd foolishly tried to reach out into the dark halls to see what might be causing it. The screams only grew louder, and a darkness that was thicker than the one in her room, smothered her. Blinking back the memory of that night she sat up on the edge of her bed, wrapping her arms around herself as the pit of her stomach twisted into a knot.<br/><br/>It was some time later that she realized the screams were fading, and glanced up, her knot growing tighter now as she thought on what else was to come. It wasn't that this place was any better at night, but over the last month new doctors had come. Ones who weren't like the others. She hated this place with every fiber of her being but there was nothing to be done about it everyone outside this place, and inside thought she was crazy only she knew she wasn't. She didn't want to be prodded with questions, or forced into group therapy any more, she just wanted to go home.<br/>