Ebony DiSilva was sitting in her flat, reading a book, she had a strange feeling that she was being watched, she had experienced the feeling every now and then for just over a year, she would turn her head and something would shoot out of her range of vision, she'd feel something brush past her when nothing was there.

This time she was sure she was being watched, she had looked out of the window and illuminated by the street light was a person in a cloak, she looked away for a second, thinking she'd heard a mouse (she had just rid herself of an infestation) when she had turned back to the window, the cloaked figure had gone.

Maybe she had just imagined it, she tried to comfort herself. She closed the curtains and went back to her book, she spent hours reading, she liked to lose herself in a good book.

The radio was on, it was 11pm, and there was a knock at the door, she thought it was her landlord complaining about her music, again, she could just imagine his tirade he'd give her

"Now now, Miss DiSilva, I like a good song as much as the next bloke, but this is unreasonable, you may not think it is loud, but Mrs Crump upstairs has just been knocking at my door, and I know there is only 12 more days left in your tenancy contract, but, I can't give you special privileges because of that…"

Maybe if she ignored him, he'd get bored and leave her alone, hopefully. She stayed put, trying to concentrate on her reading a while longer, to no avail, the knocking just got more frantic.

"You win Mr Costa" she muttered as she unlocked the door, expecting him to start his tirade the moment he heard the lock click, She turned the handle, still no tirade, maybe it wasn't about her music after all, the door was fully open and it wasn't Mr Costa standing in front of her.

She didn't know who this person was or what they did to her, all she knew was that she couldn't see a thing, it was hard to breathe, it was like air had thinned to nothingness and any attempts at breathing were futile, she kicked out, trying to escape, she was just using up energy though.

Ebony eventually gave in, exhausted and unable to breathe she fell limp.