Duke woke up suddenly, sitting up and gasping for breath. He realized his entire body was drenched in sweat.
He wiped the sweat off his forehead and glanced at the bed; it was very clean, and the thick layer of dust had disappeared.
Looking around the room again, it was also very clean, as if nothing had happened.
Duke got out of bed, feeling the sunlight streaming in from the window was somewhat glaring.
From the rays of light, he could tell it was still daytime outside.
"How long did I actually sleep, a few minutes or a whole day?" Duke was puzzled, unable to determine the current time.
When he went to sleep, it was still the afternoon, and now it looked like not much time had passed outside, but he felt as though he had slept for a very long time.
"The woman in the dream seemed familiar..." Duke recalled the dream he just had, with a persistent feeling that the face appearing in front of the window was very familiar.
