Moonlight Escape, Part 7

 

Moonlight Escape, Part 7~  WeWriWa Snippet August 4

By: Susan Schiller  Photo Credit   Previously: Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  Part 5  Part 6

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Synopsis: This is a true story that I'm slowly rewriting into fiction. Laura, whose name means "Victorious One," is dreaming in this segment, and discovering that her dream life closely parallels and links to her conscious life, supplying her with uncanny wisdom that fuels her journey to freedom.

Laura is a political prisoner held captive as part of a government study tucked away in the mountains of Montana under the cover of a boarding school for troubled teens. The first two floors host completely normal educational operations and dormitories, but the locked third floor is home to a select group of youth who are involuntarily the subjects of sadistic experiments. Laura is determined to be free, no matter what the consequences.

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The next 8 sentences:

Laura tentatively stepped through the misty wall, amazed to feel soft, sandy soil beneath her bare feet in place of the chilly lineoleum of the dorm room. Gingerly, she placed her hands on two flowering vines that draped gracefully from an overhanging tree. It was real!

Swinging her head back around, Laura glanced nervously at Josh, who winked and said, "Don't worry – they can't see or hear us in the Secret Place!"

"What is this Secret Place, Josh?" whispered Laura as she gazed in wonder at the lavendar light of twilight twinkling across the stone path in front of her feet. "Is it safe here – is this how we get out?"

"It's the place of unknowing, Laura. There are an infinite number of ways to escape, but first you must face and defeat the dragon and he will give you the key."

To be continued…

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