She awoke with a start.
She brushed the sleep from her eyes and looked around the bedroom. Everything seemed to be in perfect order.
She heard an odd noise coming from outside the room. She couldn’t quite explain it.
Rising from her bed, she stepped into the hall, nightgown flowing. She walked towards the door, and reached tentatively [...]

Note: This is the thirteenth part of a multiple-blog, multiple-chapter, multiple-author, multiple-personality exercise amongst a group of similarly-insane individuals spawned from Nathan’s Polybloggimous blog. The basic premise is that we’re writing a story, Sophie From Shinola, and each of us takes a turn writing a chapter. However, we each must change a major element [...]