The Search
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Matilda sat on her balcony in the breezy Aruba night. She’d draped her blanket over her legs with her laptop over it. She researched for almost an hour but still came up empty. Then her sight began swimming.
Matilda rubbed her eyes, noting that she wasn’t sleepy. But why were her eyes tired? She was about to get up when searing pain flared through her body.