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The cold floor turned quickly into hot burning sand at every step that I made. Everything I touched would turn into little golden particles. As it all changed, I could feel the heat. I started sweating. It was as if all of the water in my body was leaving it. I was confused. There was a lake in the horizon. I knew it couldn't be true. I knew it was my mind tricking me. But I run towards it anyways. As I got closer, my body was starting to feel better. I wasn't sweating anymore. I'd run for hours, but I didn't feel tired. When I finally got there, what I found was a mirror. My skin was falling over. I looked terrible. I laid down on the mirror and waited for the cold of the glass to take all of my illusions away.