p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A plop on the couch. -Ba-dump- Something is there. -Ba-dump- It's warm./spanstrong id="docs-internal-guid-9dcc0aec-7fff-86b2-97ff-9826d7ad92eb" style="font-weight: normal;"/strong/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Hysteria slowly opened her eyes to the blinding light above her. Her eyes squinted as she looked towards her feet, where the shift in weight was. It looks like a pillow, Hysteria thought in confusion. Suddenly she remembered what happened the day before. What time is- /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Noticing she was awake, the wolf pup was now on her chest looking straight at her. "This seems like it should be awkward… So it wasn't a dream?" She asked the creature in front of her. All it did in response was tilt its head and lick her face. After doing so, it jumped off the couch and ran to the kitchen. Based on the windows, it's evening time, so maybe it's the next day? Getting off the couch, she realised that she was drenching in sweat. There goes that idea./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She walked with sort of a limp in her step as she was still half asleep. The kitchen's bright white light bounced off the shiny, recently cleaned counters, the floor just as sparkling. The wolf pup was on the ground staring at her, tail wagging behind it. "You want food?" The puppy barked. That's a yes then. She went over to her fridge and got out a pound of beef. Looking down at the wolf she said, "I need food as well."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"After getting all the ingredients together, she pulled out a recipe book that looked like every page was a collage of different kinds. Flipping to the exotic foods opening page, she looked back at the ingredients. A moment of silence followed before she flipped to the page she needed to have while making this dish. Mom's favourite./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The pan on the stove heating up, she got a cutting board out and started slicing some vegetables and herbs. When the pan was completely heated up, Hysteria put the pound of meat on the pan and started browning it. After it was completely ready, she grabbed a small pot and put some water in it. Putting it on the stove, she poured some white rice into it./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Back to the vegetables, she did them one at a time. Before however, she put some red and clear liquid into a tiny bowl, dropping in some green onion and letting it sit. The aroma in the kitchen soon filled the whole house with this delicious dish. She only cooked it so often, so she tried to savour every moment of it that she could, sometimes even making extras./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Finished with the cooking, she got out two plates. One of the plates got some beef and was put on the floor for the pup along with a bowl of water. The other, however, was delicate. Rice first, covered in ground beef just the way she taught me. On top, vegetables along with the onions that were surely coated in the strange mixture./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sitting down at the table, she was holding her fork in her hand and just stared at it for a moment and then took a bite. Her eyes closed and mouth full of flavour, she savoured every taste on her tongue before swallowing. She followed it immediately with another bite, eating it slowly before finishing up with a glass of water and putting them in the sink to be washed in the morning./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She left the wolf in the kitchen to finish its food. Walking back into the living room, she decided to grab a book off the shelves. Maybe there's a new one today that I missed. Dragging her fingers across all the spines on the bookcase, her hand stopped at a book titled 'Black Curse'. She grabbed it off the shelf and flipped to page one, not surprised to see not one word written on the page. She put it back and reached for her favourite book, 'Girl On The Line' by Faith Gardner. Despite being a few years older than her, the book was the most pristine thing on the shelf, other than its tattered cover at least./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Flipping to page one as she walked over to the couch, she was instantly enveloped into this world of sadness and the feeling of being alone despite being surrounded by people. The couch was again shifted under the weight of the wolf pup as it jumped up and snuggled next to her. Maybe another night on the couch isn't such a bad thing./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Hysteria slowly opened her eyes to the blinding light above her. Her eyes squinted as she looked towards her feet, where the shift in weight was. It looks like a pillow, Hysteria thought in confusion. Suddenly she remembered what happened the day before. What time is- /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Noticing she was awake, the wolf pup was now on her chest looking straight at her. "This seems like it should be awkward… So it wasn't a dream?" She asked the creature in front of her. All it did in response was tilt its head and lick her face. After doing so, it jumped off the couch and ran to the kitchen. Based on the windows, it's evening time, so maybe it's the next day? Getting off the couch, she realised that she was drenching in sweat. There goes that idea./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She walked with sort of a limp in her step as she was still half asleep. The kitchen's bright white light bounced off the shiny, recently cleaned counters, the floor just as sparkling. The wolf pup was on the ground staring at her, tail wagging behind it. "You want food?" The puppy barked. That's a yes then. She went over to her fridge and got out a pound of beef. Looking down at the wolf she said, "I need food as well."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"After getting all the ingredients together, she pulled out a recipe book that looked like every page was a collage of different kinds. Flipping to the exotic foods opening page, she looked back at the ingredients. A moment of silence followed before she flipped to the page she needed to have while making this dish. Mom's favourite./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The pan on the stove heating up, she got a cutting board out and started slicing some vegetables and herbs. When the pan was completely heated up, Hysteria put the pound of meat on the pan and started browning it. After it was completely ready, she grabbed a small pot and put some water in it. Putting it on the stove, she poured some white rice into it./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Back to the vegetables, she did them one at a time. Before however, she put some red and clear liquid into a tiny bowl, dropping in some green onion and letting it sit. The aroma in the kitchen soon filled the whole house with this delicious dish. She only cooked it so often, so she tried to savour every moment of it that she could, sometimes even making extras./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Finished with the cooking, she got out two plates. One of the plates got some beef and was put on the floor for the pup along with a bowl of water. The other, however, was delicate. Rice first, covered in ground beef just the way she taught me. On top, vegetables along with the onions that were surely coated in the strange mixture./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sitting down at the table, she was holding her fork in her hand and just stared at it for a moment and then took a bite. Her eyes closed and mouth full of flavour, she savoured every taste on her tongue before swallowing. She followed it immediately with another bite, eating it slowly before finishing up with a glass of water and putting them in the sink to be washed in the morning./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"She left the wolf in the kitchen to finish its food. Walking back into the living room, she decided to grab a book off the shelves. Maybe there's a new one today that I missed. Dragging her fingers across all the spines on the bookcase, her hand stopped at a book titled 'Black Curse'. She grabbed it off the shelf and flipped to page one, not surprised to see not one word written on the page. She put it back and reached for her favourite book, 'Girl On The Line' by Faith Gardner. Despite being a few years older than her, the book was the most pristine thing on the shelf, other than its tattered cover at least./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Flipping to page one as she walked over to the couch, she was instantly enveloped into this world of sadness and the feeling of being alone despite being surrounded by people. The couch was again shifted under the weight of the wolf pup as it jumped up and snuggled next to her. Maybe another night on the couch isn't such a bad thing./span/p