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And so Anna remained at this window for quite a while, just looking out the window, just making sure this guy really was gone.

Because again, she just doesn't know, like, was this real?

Am I imagining things?

Am I going crazy?

Was this a nightmare?

Like, she doesn't know.

And so she's just standing there waiting, watching, but

You know, this guy doesn't reappear, the hearse doesn't reappear.

And so eventually, she crawls back in bed, and after what felt like forever, she drifted off into a fairly light sleep.

And then before long, you know, she opened her eyes again, and sunlight had filled the room.

She had survived the night.

And so now, you know, feeling the comfort and safety of light in the room and knowing that it's a new day, she told herself, wow, like, that was crazy.

That was terrifying.

That had to have been just a particularly vivid nightmare.

Like, there's no other reasonable explanation for this.

It had to be a nightmare.

So, Anna got out of bed convinced she was just fine, that nothing strange has happened here at all.

She got herself together and she left the bed and breakfast and she headed out to this brand new department store that had just opened up in Chicago.

She wanted to go and have a nice day of shopping.

And so Anna gets to this department store and it's so vibrant and it's bustling with people and there's four floors of all this incredible stuff that they're selling.