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Darkness. Never-ending darkness.

All around me. I am surrounded.

I look up, and I see a light… is that a… window - up there? I look down, and.. I’m standing. On a pillar. I stand on glass. It is stained - like those windows on a church. Just what the hell am I doing here!? I don’t understand any of this. What is this place? With open eyes, I see a girl - a princess? - engraved on the glass. She’s… beautiful. Wearing a bluish-white dress, short blonde hair, with a headband, it seems she only has one slipper on, and she’s running… from a castle; down a flight of stairs. Behind her is a white carriage and a clock with both hands signaling the stroke of midnight, and her eyes - beautiful… beyond comparison. There are silhouettes engraved on the outermost edge of the surface as well - is that her? - dancing with a male figure.

I don’t understand this. What does a princess have to do with me being here?

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