'There, a faint shimmer of light!'
She gasped and ran towards it, stumbling in the relentless pitch-black void she's been trapped in, all alone. No sign of another living thing. No rats (or mice for that matter), no cockroaches, no ants, not even mosquitoes. She doesn't know whether to be glad or not.


'This must be just a nightmare, I'll wake up and find myself in my old comfy bed.' She thought to herself in the beginning. With her eyes closed, she pinched hard on her own arm. Opened her eyes gingerly, hopefully. Nothing. Still there.


'Now don't panic, I'm sure there's a way out of here.' Her hands groping the walls to sense her way around, her legs carried her on and on along the seemingly endless path.

The elusive glimmer was snuffed out in an instant like someone just blew out a candle and along with it went her hope of finding an exit. The darkness enveloped her once again as she slid onto the ground, drained.