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"Your time is up. Better run!"

Write a story that contains this line of speech anywhere within.

The Panic Room

Leah just woke up. Nothing to see, darkness all around, and she is covered in dust. She coughs and tries to catch her breath so she can have some energy to analyze where she is and how she got here. Feeling the floor around her, she comes upon some thing fleshy and wet. She begins to realize that it is not an animal or something normal she imaged in her head while using her sense, but it was a dead body. She continued to feel around to find a source of light until she pulled out the deceased person’s phone nad flashed it on the body and around the empty room she was in. The dead person rotting right at her feet was her best friend Miona. Leah out a loud but muffled scream and leather hands wrapped themselves around her dry mouth. She tried to hold onto the light source to make what was grabbing her come to life. One thing she would never know is that she can’t bring what is in this room with her to life but it is not alive. Never was, never will. Leah begins to scream and find a corner to sit in, nothing facing her back. This was a challenge to do in complete darkness, but this was not the challenge she had to face in order to survive. A slight creak and scream of a door allows for her to see a little slither of light as a long crooked black hand calls her to it. Leah follows with some hope of her being delusional and for there to be a way of escape. She enters into the yellow-blue light of a corn maze but in the back of some dead office as what it seems to be. She hears the sound of a clock and hears the whisper of the a little girl saying you have 5 minutes to find the safe room. She turns round to go back to the room which she now considers her safe room. Leah is in awful dread, anguish, and fear of what it is to come and what will happen once the clock tick marking 5 minutes. She runs and runs in all different directions trying to find the “safe room”. The clock is ticking and the louder it ticks the end of the timer set for her is to end. As she panics she sees this dark creature. In the distant she sees a door that she dashes too in an instant, only to find its name to be the “Panic Room”. With this relaization and escalation in fear she hears the clock. She turns around to find the one creature break its one head into many as it grows taller. Her eyes pop out of the sockets as she feels herself elevating. This monster grabs her by the neck and says in the voice of her best friend Miona, ‘Your time is up. Better run”! But Leah has no where to run. Only the mouth of the big, black creature about to embody her.

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