Ones there was a girl, who befriended shadows. She didn't know they were shadows, they seemed as real as could be. They listened to her, heard her stories, and talked to her too. The girl was thrilled to have friends like these, so loyal! So kind, she'd think. The shadows would talk to her in the morning, and they'd come over to her house to play games. But one day, the sun went down, and this was new and frightening to the girl. She only knew to find her friends, the shadows. The funny thing about shadows is that they go away when the sun goes down. The girl searched for her shadows, but they were gone, without a trace. She searched for hours, days, months, she searched for so long she was lost and couldn't find her way home. So she sat there, alone, in the ruins of the world she constructed for herself. After a while of sifting through the ruins, looking for her shadows, she realized they were never really there. She finally figured out they were shadows, but she forever sat in the ruins, because she didn't know how to rebuild. The sun never came up for her, and she still sifts through the ruins, not looking for shadows, but looking for an escape, because she is broken and only the shadows, the nonexistent shadows, can fix her The end.