PART II - The Attempt

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NOTE: Parts II - VII all follow on from Part I. They are all part of the same story, with the same human narrator :) 


Past the midnight time, I hear
Odd whispers in my sleep
Like phantoms passing far and near,
Fading shallow, fading deep:
"You take the front. I'll take the rear.
We'll pin the damn wings down
."

          Next, I feel I'm being chok'd!
My head is knock'd! 
My arms are bound!

I try to scream, "Let go!"
But only hear hoarse caws.

A sudden burst of blinding light —
          A raging flash that shakes the night —
Then puts the ruckus to a pause.

With madden'd jolt,
I rise in bed
To fight the men at fault.


          ...There are none.


Just a trick in my head.
Just a nightmare, for sure.

No hoodlums in my room.
Only me
After all.



          I'm a-sweat all over.
There's a throb near my brow.
I gently touch the pain.
I'm bleeding slightly now.

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