Piercing screams pierced through Hu Lei's mind as she remained asleep in a large immaculate room in completely white bed. The cries seemed louder than usual. However, her heart did not race neither did she feel a cold sweat cover her body and soak the beddings.
Though she could not move and seemed trapped in a place filled with pain, she knew it was only a dream, a figment of unclear memories. She remained calm as she allowed the demon haunting her to leave and the sleep paralysis to wear off.
When she woke up, she wondered if her mind had become trapped somewhere. Or perhaps she had died and gone to the other place.
She took a deep breath and calmed her claustrophobia. In truth, she did not fear all closed spaces. Her terror was in restriction in white clinical rooms. And the room she had woken up in was only a few test tubes short of a medical-grade lab.
