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Triangles.

Dancing triangles.

Thousands of them.

Rotating around her vision, as if she was looking through a kaleidoscope.

The ringing of a bell. Tingly tingly.

Then, voices. So many unique ones... Male, female... All merging together to make them almost inaudible.

Suddenly, the triangles all flew together to create a giant shape.

A face appeared on it.

A eye.

A top hat.

A bow tie.

She'd seen this creature before. She just couldn't put a name to the ugly visage, though.

Suddenly, the 'thing' flew right into her line of vision. She could see nothing but yellow and black.

The single eye seemed to be scrutinizing her. Looking her up, and down, like she was a prize exhibit at a zoo.

One of the demonic triangle's spindly arms shot out, and pointed straight at her. The eye closed, as an uncontrollable spasm rocked it's three sided body.

And then, came the laughter.

The noise sounded like all the voices she'd heard before. Only this time they didn't sound different. All of them were mocking her. Sneering at her. Ridiculing her... As one.

It was practically unbearable.

Especially when combined with the peal of the bell.

The 'thing' in front of her was still taking up her entire viewpoint. It was spinning in mid-air now... And, as the volume of the laughter increased from a mouth that wasn't there, the more it seemed to animate itself.

It was gaining pleasure from her pain.

And, as the streams of giggles, chuckles, snickers and guffaws joined the tingle of the bell to become the soundtrack to her very existence, and the jeering triangle seemed to form part of her very soul, she felt herself collapse.

She put her hands over her ears.

It didn't shut out the horrible noise.

She put her hands over her eyes.

The figure was still there, rotating faster than ever before.

"Stop it." She whispered, on the verge of despair.

The torture still carried on.

If anything, it was getting worse.

Then, she realised something.

What did all this remind her of?

Think, Pacifica.

Hmm...

It was hard to concentrate with everything going on around her...

And the fact she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown...

But she was able to stir some memories from her not-too-distant past.

Of course.

The belittling.

The taunting.

Being made to feel as if you were an inch tall.

It was straight out bullying.

Exactly what SHE used to do to people.

Before... him.

What was his name again?

She really couldn't remember.

Instead, she started receiving flashbacks.

All the times she'd harassed someone for wearing last years fashion.

All the times she'd picked on someone for being slightly different.

All the times she'd stepped on someone for just 'being in her way'

None of them were particularly pleasant.

But they kept coming.

Increasing both in volume, and in severity.

They reminded her...

They reminded her how truly worthless she really was.

And with the laughter and ringing sticking like pins in her ears, following her wherever she tried to run...

And the omnipresent triangle still there, spinning at light speed, forming her entire world...

She felt like...

She felt like she wanted to die.
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But, wait...

Whatever she'd ever done to anyone...

It was never as bad as THIS.

She knew she'd done wrong in her life...

But this...

This was a whole new level of awful.

She didn't deserve this.

And for the first time since these horrible visions started...

She looked up... And stared that demon right in his one eye.

"Go away" she said.

The triangle seemed to slow down for a second, and there was a break in the cacophony of voices and tingling.

Bliss, perfect bliss.

But only for a second.

It wasn't too long before the creature resumed it's rapid spinning cycle, and the noise returned with a vengeance, more obnoxious and grating than ever before.

Pacifica had had enough.

"GO AWAY" she yelled, once more with feeling.

On a flash of inspiration, she removed one of her diamond earrings, and threw it right into the single eye of the oppressive figure.

It connected with a satisfying CLANG!!

All of a sudden, the creature disintigrated... Back into the thousands of smaller triangles that she'd seen at the start of this nightmare.

"Oh no, not again" she put her head in her hands.

But, something WAS different.

They were flying away now... And with them, that horrible, horrible sound.

And as they left... Everything...

Everything was white...

And serene...

That is..

Except for ONE evil chuckle.

On a constant loop.

That she couldn't stop, no matter how hard she tried.

Oh, well.

It was a marked improvement on before.

She could live with it...

Live...?

"PLEASE LIVE!!"

She heard someone calling.

Who was it?

She had no idea.

But she had a notion she was about to find out.

As she felt herself being sucked out...

Out of her world of white...

To another place...

Away, away...

But that laugh was still there...

Repeating like a mantra in her head...

And it wasn't going to be going away anytime soon...

Oh, no.