Nora slowly stood up like suddenly everything in her room was fine china and she had become a bull.
She tiptoed over to a box hidden far off in the corner of my room and opened it carefully.
Inside was a stack of small gold bars stacked in a pyramid formation. Nora softly picked one up before exerting force on the middle of a gold bar the size of her palm.
She pressed down with her fingers but only left three faint finger marks, she sighed with relief before she slumped down to the ground again.
She didn't understand anything, but it was reassuring to know that her wealth was still stronger than the raging storm inside of herself.
She started to recall the events that happened in her dream but stopped immediately when she felt a dull pain stretch across the sides of her head.
"Nora! Wake your butt up right now!" Tori banged on the door while shouting.
She was pleasantly surprised when her night owl of a friend opened the door, especially after only three knocks!
That surprise was thoroughly wiped off of her face and replaced with disgust after she caught a whiff of the stench radiating off of Nora.
"What the heck is that grey stuff on you? It's stinky!" She covered her nose and gagged, but stopped after noticing Nora's somber mood.
She fiddled with her fingers nervously before blurting out
"Umm, Auntie is always sending you weird stuff, I bet when you rinse it off, your skin will be smoother than wang's!"
'...That was a little sweet, so I'll let her off the hook for now.' Nora huffed as she walked to her drawers to get her uniform.
"-and for once you woke up on time!" Nora ignored that little remark.
'Honestly, she's right. Maybe today will be better than yesterday, I feel lighter already!'
Nora scurried to the bathroom to find that a bath was waiting for her. There were tiny flower petals scattered stop the steaming water that smelled of jasmine and sea foam.
Nora turned around to Tori with glossed over eyes ready to cry on the spot just to find her dry heaving against the wall.
"N-nora, j-just get in the bath okay? You smell like marinated pigs feet." Tori softly chuckled to herself when she got glared at.
"And I was just about to thank you, nevermind I guess!" She slammed the day and removed her clothes with gusto.
She dipped her foot in the bath expecting it to be sizzling hot, but the water was just right.
She wasted no more time and plopped in and started scrubbing the grey muck off of her body.
"What the hell is this anyway? There's no way it's dead skin.." she brought a bit to her nose and sniffed.
There was a beat of eerie silence.
Tori was at her nightstand fixing up her hair and makeup when she heared coughing and wheezing through the door as she got ready, the lipstick she was putting on slid all the way to her jaw as she giggled.
'yeah.. Tori wasn't just being a clown, I smell like a teenage boy after basketball practice..'
She was scrubbing her legs when she saw something green in the water.
She stood up so rapidly, she turned into a blur.
"Eek! Is that a frog-" she looked down to see a green marking around her upper thigh. It was an elegant emerald green that swirled around her thigh like a garter.
'Am I turning into an ogre!?'
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Nora came out the bath feeling as light as a cloud, trying her best to ignore the now warm sensation on her upper thigh.
Tori sat up from the couch and looked Nora up and down before smiling.
"Your really afraid of the sun huh? Your skirt's touching the ground now!" She came closer before crouching next to Nora.
Nora felt an imaginary tear roll down her eye as she smiled the pain away.
"Modesty is the best policy as some people say." Tori looked a tad bit offended as she stared at her skirt that reached above her knees.
Nora prayed in her heart to whichever God was listening that Tori wouldn't take that personally.
"Are you so desperate that your trying to become a nun?!" Tori looked like she discovered some secret before she giggled at the ugly face Nora made.
She sarcasticly patted Nora on the back before she stood in front of the door waiting for the guards to unlock their cold heavy doors and let them free.
Little did they know that a new beast was released along with the freshman, one that had yet to bear it's teeth.
Nora came shuffling behind Tori as she bit into a cinnamon doughnut stick waiting for the door to open.
The door clicked and the sun hit her eyes as they sparkled, the wind carrying her hair behind her face.