That night, Aster found herself falling.<br/><br/>At first, it looked like her dreams would go largely uninterrupted, but soon the darkness started to seep inside her subconscious. A speck of black at first, but then oozing down the walls of her mind, festering in heaps upon her psyche, and spreading through every nerve ending until it was all she could do to stay afloat in this seemingly endless abyss.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><del><strong>"I'll FInd YoU..."</strong></del></span>A voice whispered, just out of sight, moving every time she tried to move her head,<strong><del><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"i'M so CLoSE I can FEEl you..."</span></del></strong><br/><br/>She didn't<del> - couldn't - </del>see the hands that pulled at her throat and arms, nor could she stop the fingers that seemed to creep over her skull until they were mere millimeters away from her open eye-sockets, creeping closer and closer and --<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><del><strong>"YoU'LL be MinE!" </strong></del></span>