The sunlight peers through the slits of your blinds, stirring you from your sleep with its soft, warm rays. You lift the blanket you had pulled over your head in your sleep just enough to see the fuzzy digital clock on your desk. As your eyes adjust to the light, you see the time: 11:37. You bolt upright. You pivot your head from side to side, frantically looking for your phone. You toss your pillow aside to find it resting peacefully where you had discarded it the night before. You snatch it into your clutches, attempting to discover why you'd overslept your alarm.................It's Saturday.
You grab your pillow off the floor, allowing yourself to seep back into the warm recesses of your bed. Today was your day off. No alarms, no schedule, no responsibilities. It felt like you hadn't had a break in YEARS, always finding something that needed to be taken care of on your precious day off. You're determined to ensure today would NOT be the same. You hear a low rumbling sound in your stomach, notifying you of the lack of food you've eaten in the last 14 hours.
You rub your eyes with your dominant hand while supporting yourself with the other, sitting up in bed. You swing your legs off, your toes feeling the warm carpet beneath. You exit your room, entering the hall of your two-story home. You walk downstairs and turn to enter the kitchen, but get a strange feeling you should check the front door. You spin the other direction and cautiously move toward the entrance, the odd premonition growing stronger with each step. You grab the door handle in your right hand, unlocking the deadbolt with your left. You twist the cool metal, pulling open the door and peeking out. Looking around, you see no one and proceed to take a skeptical step onto your doorstep. Looking further, there's still no sight of anyone, but as you turn to head inside, your foot bumps a brown package with the Amazon logo taped on. You pick it up, not remembering you had ordered something, but it has your name on it, so you bring it inside. Curiosity overpowering hunger, you bring the package back up to your room, opening it to find an old, wooden box with an odd language engraved into its borders. Releasing the latch, you open the older box to reveal...