• I open my eyes standing in front of an ajar door in a child's bedroom. The room was plain as can be with a basic twin bed with white sheets and a pillow. The wooden floor was bare. No dresser, no closet, no window can be seen. It was time. A little girl enters the room and stares at the bed. She turns and faces me with solemn eyes. An irritating high voice lets out a call from place in the building structure. I put my hand on the little girl's shoulder, quickly picked her up in both my arms, and took her through the hallway and began heading down the halls. The walls were a glowing a bright yellow-green color from the sunlight hitting our surroundings. I turn a corner and see a cage-like room. It sent me into deep thought and sincerity for the girl who was held in there.I hated the stepmother. Just solid hate. The real daughter of stepmother was treated with delicacy and spoiling. The stepmother's voice kept ringing through the building and my ears. I can feel my heartbeat and blood rushing. I then decided to take the tiny girl in my arms far away. Take her to a place that gives her life and freedom. I began running. Running through the bamboo stalks of this house. Through the turns and course of this building. Flying down the stairs and dashing through the kitchen. I jumped over the counter and everything in the building was shaking. It was coming down. It was all crashing down around me. I kept running; heading towards the exit and the outside world. My legs kept going, and my arms still carrying the child. The sunlight and blue sky now surround me. I look in front of me and see the field. Thorn field. Endless thorns. I am now in the fields. The thorns digging into my skin. My feet are bare. I have made a few more sprints and then I came crashing down. My hands hit the thorns. My skin and body...It tingles. I told the girl to run towards the car beyond the field. I see her back and the hem of her white dress following her. I looked behind me. The bamboo building was crashing down. Smoke, dirt, and dust are billowing into the sky. It tingles.