“I shouldn’t have touched that.” -2024

She kept her 3 favorite things lined up on the shelf above her bed - but as she looked at them now, she realized one was missing.

The locked plastic case where she usually kept her hourglass was empty. She wondered who could have taken it when she noticed orange fingerprints on the broken lock.

She was surprised by a size of fingerprints… They were small as if they were made by a kid. She picked it up and pull it upside down. When the sand started falling down she could feel ground under her shaking. She gasped as she seen herself falling into a darkness.

She chastised herself as she fell. The weighted pedestal is the first thing you learn in grave robbing school! She landed with a thumping crunch. Something cushioned her fall, and she was afraid to learn what it was.

She explored the mass beneath with her fingers—furry, yet firm. Swiftly, she rolled over to see the Golden Hourglass in the maw of a giant bat! Without thinking she clutched the treasure while swatting at its wings. Finally, escaping in the dark before the menace could recover.