a voice clear and somehow familiar urged her back from the dark place. She struggled to open her eyes, but they wouldn't move, as if someone was pressing down on them, holding them closed. She couldn't open them no matter how much she wanted to and she faded away again. It was a nightmarish place filled with black flowers and purple grass. The sky was black without even stars to offset the darkness. She knew she had to get away, but where could she go? After a while, the voices faded until there was only the sound of her heartbeat to keep her company. A sob erupted somewhere nearby. “Andrea, you've got to wake up! You don't know what they'll do to you if they ever find out who you are.” A male voice, one she dimly recognized. The sobs were so violent that his shoulders shook. She could see his shoulders! She tried to talk but there was something in her throat. A tube of some kind. It was suffocating her.
