February 27, 2019

The three of us were in a free-for-all snowball fight in the meter-deep snow. The now-abandoned park was surrounded by brick walls on all sides. Every now and then, I would see a shadow at the foot of some of the trees. I tried to bring this to the attention of the others but they wouldn’t listen until I started hearing voices. I didn’t want to stay here any longer.

I ran towards the wall and tried to climb over the wall when my foot was grabbed by a twisting water pipe. I managed to kick off the pipe before falling over the wall. As the rest caught up on the other side, we tried to process what had just happened.

Someone in the group picked up a piece of metal and smashed the pipe open which caused a torrent of hot water to burst through. A spirit came out of the pipes and thanked us for freeing it.