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Exhausted, I fell asleep again, but I didn't realize that I was once again in that dream, the dream that made me tremble.

Everything in the dream played out again, just like yesterday, the baby's crying and giggling, the shuffling of footsteps, tick-tick-tock … Tick, tap, tap … It kept ringing.

The footsteps grew louder and noisier, coming from the living room outside