Percy was sitting by the window, headphones on and staring out of the Window. It was late, after midnight already, but she couldn't sleep. Still dressed, even with her fishers hat still on, she had not moved from the spot in hours,

Tomorrow would be the first day of the new year, the university was already swamped with new people, all excited at the prospect of being students, grownups, and to sit in the giant lecture halls and go to Parties. For Percy however, the excitement had by now been replaced with dread as she faced her last year and an unknown future. Many of her friends already had Job Prospects, plans on what to do and where to go and Percy herself was still unsure if she would even pass.

So, she sat in the window, looking up at the skies and wishing herself far, far away. Oh, how much she would love to just go away, just get into the next train and see where it took her. Belize, Palau, Madagascar.

Maybe Sri Lanka and India, or up to Norway or maybe Copenhagen. But she shook her head, because no matter how much her heart ached for these adventures there were things binding her to this place. Expectations, others and her own, money that she didn't have and fear. Because what if, after she has spent all the money and seen all the places, there was still more time? What would she do after? So, she knew she had to be smart, work now and wait so that she could be happy later.

She sighed and looked back into her room, the only light coming through the window, shining on her luggage that she had brought from home, still packed, and the blank walls of the dorm.

She closed her eyes, for just a second and imagined sitting on a train or a plane getting ready to start her journey. Jungle, Desert and Savanah surrounding her. Or maybe snow, mountains and forest. She didn't care.

And while she was dreaming, she missed the shadow that slipped past her, into the dark of her room and by the time she opened her eyes again and looked up to the skies the intruder had already mad up his mind and was standing behind her. So close that, had he been human, she would have v=felt his presence, the heat coming of his body, the eyes on her back. But he wasn't.

And when he touched the back of her neck and wrapped his hand around her mouth there was not enough time to react before she lost consciousness. And away they went.