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___Tricia sat in the room she escaped to a while ago, just reading a book out of sheer boredom or just sheer need to distract herself, her now-clean nails in her mouth as she chewed on them absentmindedly as the book began to take her breath away. The room was coated in darkness, but reading in the dark had become a sort of specialty for Tricia. Where she came from didn't exactly have all that much light, and when you got a hold of some, it was always dim.
Sitting in the furthest corner of the dark room, her knees pulled to her chest as she buried her mind in the words that began to blend together to make a moving, colorful picture of another world, another set of characters, another story just in general. Anything to get her mind off of what was going on now, the fact that she was sitting in a room that wasn't even her own, it was just a random room in the building that she just escaped to and miraculously found clothes that decently fit her. Formality of dresses and hair pieces be damned - the girl reverted back to a pair of black, fitted jeans that had zippers going from her calf down to her ankles that offered more room but Tricia tended to enjoy things that actually fit her a bit better. Like the plain dark t-shirt she now wore over a long sleeved, plain, slightly loose shirt. The t-shirt was fitted, keeping the fabric to her but letting it flow down her arms for that comfort that she so enjoyed. Call it preference or knowing that when one does combat, loose clothes are a bad idea or whatever you wish - Tricia very rarely wore what she enjoyed and wore, instead, what she had always worn in life. Unlike most of the children in the building - Tricia never had the luxury of being picky or picking patterned things.
With her mind distracted, it was easy enough for the unknown child from the unknown land to not mind the fact that the room now vibrated, pulsed with a life of its own, stemming from the child herself in the corner. Any parts of the room her bare skin touched, mostly the floor due to her bare feet, veined out and had life - a life that was almost empty, hollowly, hauntingly dark. And Tricia did not mind one single it, it was as if she was home all over again but the feeling was over almost as soon as it had come. As if lightning flashed, Tricia was alert and paying attention; a flood of silence now took over, the life vanquishing into nothing. Something was making those 'spidey senses' go off in her head and that was enough to put the book down without even marking the page she was at. What ever it was - it felt as hauntingly dark as she, herself, is. Tricia stood, walking across the now plain, bare floor - but she stopped, hesitating at the door. She escaped there for a reason: so she wouldn't be found but peeking out the door would almost certainly tell people where the girl was hiding and she hesitated more, furrowing her brows as she decided. After a long, lengthy debate in her head - the voices in it included - Tricia opened the door just slightly and peeked her head out.
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