Lucia jumped up from the ground she had sat upon when she grew tired of standing, sensing again the presence.

  She managed to take two steps before it vanished.

  "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME!" she screamed, falling to the ground with tears of rage leaking from her eyes.

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  An amount of time had elapsed, and the presence appeared again.

  Lucia snarled and scrambled across the ground towards it, but the distance was still too great, and it disappeared too quickly.

  She rolled onto her back with her hands pressed to her eyes and her teeth gritted.

  This was the greatest indignity suffered by any creature in the history of the cosmos.