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At first, they won't let me sleep.

Now, they are rising to meet me.

I can hear it at night, in the dead silence of the house.

Step by step, stair by stair, door by door, they rise.

It's in the creak on the staircase. The rattling of the windows. It's in the shadows that slink about outside the door of my room. It's in the slow, hesitant turning of the doorknobs.

They want something from me, something of theirs I took.

I think I know what it is. And I don't think I can give it back to them.

- Prachi Percy