I lied down on the balcony floor and looked up at the stars. I need to concentrate. What should I do. Apparently I shouldn’t have a need to sleep in this world. What to do… What to do. I couldn’t think of one solution. Maybe I should take this one piece at a time. So first, right now I’m in a coma, that’s very clear. To prove this I can imagine things and they can happen… Right? So I thought of lounging under the sun at a warm beach, hearing the waves crash against the sandy shore. A few moments later the moon dispersed into the much warmer, brighter, sunlight. I got up and looked over the balcony and the green scenery had changed into sand, palm trees, and water. I could hear the sound of the waves crashing against the shore. There were even seagulls flying up high in the sky. The salty smell of the sea in the warm wind brushed against my hair. This definitely proved that I was in a coma. To help me concentrate, I imagined that the warm night wind and refreshing green scenery replaced this one. It changed back into its original state and I lied back down.

           Next, if I fall asleep at any point during my time here, I will immediately die here and in real life. I don’t want that to happen. Not for a long time. However, no one knows how long I’ll actually be stuck in here for. What if I’m stuck in here for years? I don’t think I actually have a sense of time in here since I can just imagine everything that’s going on. I need to devise a plan so that I won’t ever fall asleep. If anything I imagine can happen.. Doesn’t that mean I could avoid every situation? I wonder how far I can take it. I try to imagine myself back in the study. Sitting on that old, worn out chair. I imagined the dusty smell of all the rotting books. However nothing happened. That should mean that I can’t teleport to different places… Maybe I can only make things appear and disappear around me? Can I affect people around me as well? I imagined the maid from earlier appear next to me. I waited for a full minute. No one, nothing showed up.

           So, I can only affect things around me by making them appear or disappear. That could be useful…. One more question on this topic remained. Could I imagine things that were impossible in the real world? I tried to think of a majestic unicorn standing before me. The only thing that actually appeared was a white horse with a snow cone cup on its head. I almost laughed, this means that if this ‘world’ couldn’t make something happen, it would try its best to recreate what it looked closest to. Basically nothing that doesn’t exist will actually show up. The average time for this occurrence was usually from anywhere around half a second to three seconds. I don’t think the size of the object matters because the beach only took a second and a half while the horse and the cup took a full three seconds. Maybe it depended on how much I concentrated, or it could depend on how well I could visualize what I wanted to appear. There wouldn’t be a good way to test that now, so I’ll wait ‘till later.

           The last thing would be about William. Technically, he should be the mastermind of whatever plans my brain has to try and test my will to live. Should I be thinking of ways to avoid their attacks to try and make me fall asleep? I get the feeling that I should try and focus on something else. Why did he grab my arm at the end? He would’ve been better off with trying to make me fall asleep if he never told me about this power that I posses. He had no good reason to tell me.. I mean I’m happy that he told me, but what was his motive for doing so… I still can’t deny the feelings that I did feel for him, even if it was only up till now. He made me feel safe, and it calmed me just by looking in his eyes. I didn’t want that to change. Ugh.. Why did he have to become the villain in this story. Why couldn’t he be my knight in shining armor. I think that was what angered me the most. He really did play me like a fiddle, all up until now. During the entire meal, and even in the hallway. Oh wait. There was one more thing.

           Depending on the state of my body in the real world, I could be affected in here as well. That’s what William told me earlier as well. I guess the only times I was affected by something like that was when I first got here, and I was restrained in my bed, and the second time would be in the hallway when he lied to me about the entire dust thing. So, when I was restrained in my bed it felt like I had no control over my body and I felt sleepy. William said that was the hospital staff attaching my body to all of the medical equipment necessary to keep a comatose patient in a stable condition. Wait, why would he know…? Can he see the regular world right now? Gah, I need to concentrate on this not him, anyways, the second situation was about not being able to breathe. He said it was a possibility that my heart wasn’t working properly and they had to perform CPR on me. It was certainly possible. It felt like someone was drowning me so my heart failing actually makes sense.

           Is it okay to actually trust him? He said he was my foe not my friend. He could be telling me some lies in the midst of this. What would his motive be to tell me the truth about this entire thing… Wait… If he’s apart of my mental system, does that mean he knows exactly what I’m thinking at all times? He never seems surprised by any of my actions, and when he was answering my questions he was very fast paced, and he answered all of my questions with no hesitation at all. That could mean he already knew all of the questions, or he just isn’t the type that needs a long time to think. This entire situation is too confusing because does that mean there’s a person within my own body? I mean I’ve never met anyone like him, and he has his own way of doing things. That would mean he has an individual train of thought, and his own way of doing things. Does he even have free will? I started to feel like my mind would explode, reading too much into this wouldn’t help me at all.

          Then, I started to feel a bit drowsy. Anyone would, with the feel of the warm breezy and the peaceful night sky. The sounds of the crickets. Was this scenery William’s plan to try and get me to fall asleep? Maybe I should imagine a different scenery around me. What kind of scenery would help keep me awake... I tried to think of a crisp smelling air, and the view of the top of a mountain, surrounded by a foggy undertone of the clouds. I was afraid of heights in the real world so this view might just do the trick. Maybe this was how I had to avoid William's attacks, if they were anything like this. I still couldn't understand why he even told me in the first place. Fair game maybe? The warm night sky changed into a bright, cold, sunlight. The cold wind brushed against my cheeks. Looking over the balcony I could feel my heart drop for a second, I guess I was still afraid of heights in this world as well.

          Since I was no longer feeling drowsy, I brought the old scenery back, and I decided to head back inside the mansion. I closed the balcony door behind me and headed back to my room.