I can't sleep.

My name's Aidan Grey. I'm a twelve—hold up—nearly thirteen-year-old student at P.O.E Academy, and I study the works of Edgar Allan Poe. My birthday is around the corner, but it's hard to be excited with all this crushing anxiety.

Anxiety over what, you ask?

Well, it's not because final exams are coming, and it's definitely not because of the horrific incident at the Archives—although that, too, has me on edge.

Something even more unnerving has been happening.

Vivid, life-like nightmares haunt me. I wake up groggy and confused, detached from reality. I don't know what to do or who to tell.

My parents? My friends? The professor?

Maybe I'll just handle this on my own...