There she stood, once again, staring into the emptiness. There was a pull in that direction that she couldn't quite explain, like a calling or a persistent tug. She had been feeling it all her life and always during these waking hours of twilight when here mind was lax between sleep and waking. She edged closer to the darkness, then she saw it; a pinprink of light in the dead center. She ran headlong towards it, desperate to at last escape the darkness, then suddenly she was falling; before her mind could even register a scream, she found herself blinking into the dimness of her bedroom as the early morning sun filtered through her window.
'Well that's new', thought Kagome Higurashi while deftly lifting her limp hair off her face. She had been having that same dream for as long as she could remember and this was the first time anything had happened except the endless wondering through the blackness. She sat contemplating the sudden change in her dreamscape when she heard herself being called down to breakfast. With the dream quickly forgotten, she barrelled down the stairs to gorge herself on her mother's awesome cooking. She needed a big breakfast as today was the day, she was finally graduating! It was like being on cloud nine, after five gruelling years of battling self doubt and striving for good grades, she was finally leaving high school to mark her place in the world. It was bound to be a magical day...