Excerpt: Unreal Distinction

Today Eirian had woken up to the sounds of screaming coming from the hallway of her dorm room. Outside it was still very dark. She rushed out of her room to see what was going on and was shocked to see a smoke type substance seeping in through the vent system. She automatically covered her mouth and nose and watched, horrified, as a girl about her age that she though might have been in her first period class took in a huge gulp of smokefilled air and her eyes rolled to the back of her head as she began coughing.

She coughed so much and so hard that she started coughing up blood. It covered the whole front of her shirt as she learched forward and fell down the steps, knocking over a few people on the way down. When she reached the bottom if it was clear she was dead and Eirian wouldn't be able to reach her even if she wasn't but instinctivly Eirian reached out to her, taking her own hand away from her mouth.

Before she even realized it she had taken a huge intake of the poisonous air and felt herself get woozy. She became dizzier and dizzier until she passed out right in the middle of the hallway. Right in the middle of the chaos.

But nobody else seemed to noticed.