Chapter 1
Chapter One
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Day ? I.L.
It took about a week (not that she was paying close enough attention to confirm this). Once she stopped trying to remember, the numbers became jumbled in her mind.
She’d finally lost count.
It was both freeing and terrifying. Freeing, because she could no longer be disappointed by milestones that brought no change.
Terrifying, because the growing number of days had been her only way to keep track of the passing time she alone was experiencing.
Without that number, she was floating in space, with no tether to the world as she’d once known it.
She’d been fossilized alive in a way that no one else had ever been before (as far as she knew—even in the very depths of despair, Amie wasn’t going to make everything about her).
And despite that stagnancy, she felt deeply, irreparably lost in time.
Three days later, Tuesday came.