Rose was running. Although she didn’t know what shewas running from and where she was going, she just couldn’t stop running. Her heart poundedlike it was going to burst out of her chest. She bent down gasping for breath and tryingto make sense of her surroundings. Her brain was working slower than usual and her head feltdizzy from all the continuous running. She stared up at the bright blue sky. It was an unrealblue, like the color of the ocean except burnt. The ground beneath her began to crack and splitapart, and soon she was falling. Rose felt as if she had been falling for hours butthe scream couldn’t make it out of her mouth. It was stuck halfway up her throat. If you thought aboutit, falling was actually very peaceful before you reached the ground. How did she even get here in the first place? Shecouldn’t remember. Where washere? Add that to the extremely long listof things she didn’t know yet. Rose peered at the vivid orange clouds in front of her. The sunwas starting to set and she still hadn’t seen any sign of a surface. She was tired of falling, lookingat the same scenery. Though it was exoticly beautiful it had also become quite boring. She missed the company of her friends and family.Rose wanted to leave this alternate world that she was stuck in. She closed her eyes and thebrilliant hued clouds faded from her vision. It was dark. Rose couldn’t see anything. At one pointshe wondered if her eyes were even open. Was this a dream? Her memories flooded back to her, but they didn’tfeel like her own. She felt around with her hands and touched a switch sort of thing. Rose flickedit upward but nothing happened. She waited for a few minutes but the room remained dark.Suddenly, the room filled with a warm glow, and she cringed away from the abrupt brightness. She was in a completely different area. Maybe even a different dimension… Was this a dream of some sort? Rose began to takein her new surroundings. She peered upward at the tall ceiling and the many sparklingchandeliers that dangled from it.