She woke up to the sunlight claiming inches of her face. It took her a few seconds to revive back from the valley of ignorance and trip over the rock of reality. She sat up and blinked repeatedly trying to get rid of that droopy feel of her eyelids.
Something felt off but she didn't know what. Thinking that it may be due to sleeping for too long, she stood up and made her way to the attached washroom that she didn't see earlier in the night. But her feet halted as her eyes took in something that laid on the floor.
"Nooo!" A choked gasp escaped her throat as she fell on her knees near the ripped book.
The cover of the book had marks as if scratched by something sharp or maybe the paws of an animal. Half of the pages were intact but the other half were brutally ripped and scratched from the inside leaving it unreadable from the middle and only a few parts of the writing visible on the top and bottom.
