((content warning: cannabis))
After a night of recovering from a killer cold, Essie woke up in her bed feeling refreshed; an unusual feeling to get after recovering from a cold, but Pavati’s grandmother’s remedies worked better than the heaviest stuff she’d ever been on. She felt like getting dressed and doing something... She had to study, but Essie wasn’t necessarily the type to sit down and read the same old boring lines over and over. She equipped herself with her phone, earbuds, and a small bag containing some useful items for the day and exited the dorms, moving towards a secluded area on campus. After 2 previous years at DUO, Essie knew where was safe for the planned activities. Today, she was going to make herself enjoy the new feeling of wellness by taking a day to enjoy the world.
Essie felt that the day would only be enhanced by the music she chose, and what better music to enhance life and expand one’s mind to than The Doors? As My Wild Love seduced her through her earphones, she languidly reached into her bag, took out a pack of cigarettes, filled with joints she had rolled a few days before, just in case. She took a sharp turn into what she had so lovingly named “Trippy Haven.” She took a J from the pack she prepared, lit it, and slid down the brick wall she had been just leaning on. The Ghost Song came next. She unplugged the earbuds, letting the music escape into her atmosphere.
“Awake. Shake dreams from your hair My pretty child, my sweet one. Choose the day and choose the sign of your day The day's divinity First thing you see,” the man’s voice crooned










