<strong>Jeong Soo-Jin</strong><br/><strong>Location</strong>: Jeong household<br/><strong>Tag</strong>: No one<br/>Perception Roll: 75 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=49687)<br/><hr/><br/>Jin sat up in bed, feeling quite perturbed as she watched her breath come out of her mouth in what genuinely seemed like a cool mist, which clearly didn't make any sense. Dreams were just chemical reactions happening in her brain while she slept, even recurring ones (she'd done some research after the first few nights), so she wasn't particularly distressed about them, but she didn't see how it physically made any sense for her breath to be coming out like this. Maybe her science teacher could explain, Jin considered, promising herself that she'd go ask him the question tomorrow.<br/><br/>Or later today, rather, since she glanced over to her night table and saw that the digital display of her clock was reading 12:07 AM. The shirt that she'd been sleeping in was soaked with cold sweat, so she got up and pulled it up over her head before dropping it in her laundry basket. Jin knew the layout of her room by heart, of course, so she was able to do so without having to look. Once she did take a look around, however, she noticed that her room was much darker than usual. There was usually enough light creeping through even with her curtains shut to keep the room from being totally pitch black like it was right now. Maybe the street right nearest to her window had gone out or there was a power outage? No, not a power outage, that was stupid since her clock obviously worked.<br/><br/>Stepping to the window, Jin pulled the curtains open to investigate. The streetlight was definitely working just fine, and yet it seemed like the light wasn't making it all the way to her room for some reason. Outside, it was foggy and the fog was drifting away down the street, but she figured it was just the direction of the air current. Turning back around, Jin checked again to make sure that she wasn't just imagining the darkness, and sure enough it was still unnaturally dark.<br/><br/>Her head snapped to the side suddenly as she thought that she saw something move. One of the darker shadows perhaps? But from what though...? Everything seemed perfectly still. Her window was closed, so the curtains weren't being waved around by the breeze, and outside the air seemed relatively still, certainly not enough wind to make the branches of the tree right outside her room wave around. Then Jin thought she saw it again.<br/><br/><em>Stupid dreams</em>, she thought to herself, blaming her fatigue for all the weird things that were happening, or more likely that she was imagining. It was the only logical explanation. She put on a clean shirt and carefully tiptoed out of her room, heading down the hall towards her parents' bathroom. The night seemed deathly quiet, but that was probably just her perception since she was trying to sneak around quietly without waking her parents.<br/><br/>After making sure that the door to their room was closed, Jin went into the bathroom and opened the medicine cabinet, retrieving a small bottle of prescription pills. They were sleeping pills that her mother had gotten prescribed. It said on the label that they were only for adults, but she doubted that it would make much difference whether she was fifteen or eighteen when taking one. She didn't want to risk waking her parents with the sound of the faucet, so she silently made her way downstairs to the kitchen instead to get a glass of water, taking the sleeping pill with it.<br/><br/>As she was standing there in the kitchen, Jin felt a sudden pang within her chest, urging her to get away, to go somewhere far from this place. It was like the latter part of her fight or flight instinct had just kicked in for no good, explicable reason, bringing on a rush of adrenaline with it. She set her glass of water down on the counter and put a hand over her chest as she closed her eyes and tried to calm down.<br/><br/><em>Go where, and how? With what money? And in the middle of the night so that I can get mugged or raped or murdered by some homeless person? No way. Shoot, I have to wake up in less than six hours. This pill better work.</em><br/><br/>