with our dreams entwined together

She watched her reflection in the streams of light filtering through the half closed blinds on her windows. The bed she was lying on felt unstable, as if rocking on the sea, about to pitch over. that would explain her nauseousness. She imagined, idly, that a poisonous viper had been let loose from the zoo that day and had slithered in to reach her the same way the light had, and now, it was resting on her, curled tightly around her legs. That would explain  why she could not move them. But then she chuckled at herself, chiding gently, in the place of a nanny, that she should be so silly as to think it was a viper causing that. It would have to be a pretty old viper, for it would have been curled around her legs for many months. It must be pretty hungry by now, she thought. But here she stopped, for she knew she had crawled to deep inside her mind and laughed too loudly into its tunnels. She repressed the trembles that started from her left eyebrow, and proceeded to ripple and contort her whole face with fear. She looked for her reflection in the light again, but all she saw was darkness.

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