Allecca felt the wrongness in the air when she stepped out of her bed onto the cold, unforgiving hospital floor. It seemed to sizzle with and unusual energy, and through her feet she could feel a thrumming beat, like a stereo turned up too loud. Curious, Allecca followed the sizzling beat down the hallway to the visitor's room. Allecca had been here only once before, when her father had told her he would not be returning. It was not a happy place. But Allecca's curiosity won out over her memories, and she opened the door to find an unearthly glow. In the middle of the floor, there was now a gaping, glowing, sizzling hole. Its transient energy drew her closer, ever nearer to the wide-mouthed gap. As she approached, Allecca saw the beginnings of a great spiral, its clockwise turns slanted into the abyss. Utterly unable to resist, Allecca was pulled towards the spirals mouth by unseen forces that whispered to her in strange languages and many voices. "Come with us," they seemed to say. "We are so looking forward to making your acquaintance." Now terrified, Allecca tried to break from the mystical pull of the power radiating through the room, but her will now belonged to the pull and the voices. She had no control as she, with one final tug, slipped down into the embrace of the downwards spiral leading into the unknown.