[video]

[It's midnight and the end of the curse has finally arrived. The video feed begins with a loud clatter as the device hits the floor and faces, at an angle, the edge of a desk and the person hunched over it.

Rita's awoken with a violent start from the nightmares and is gasping in air as if she hasn't been breathing. Nervously, she runs her hands over various areas to make sure they're intact--her neck, her chest, her limbs--everything checks out okay. Distractedly, she mumbles to herself.]

W-was...that all...I-I was a-asleep this wh-whole time?

[Her voice trembles uncontrollably, no thanks to the very vivid memories of all those horrifying nightmares. Drawing her knees up and huddling in a ball in her chair, she tries to banish the lingering fear.]

C-come on, Rita...s-snap out of it...

[Eventually her breathing returns to a normal rate, if still shaky. Rita stays huddled up in her chair though, too exhausted to do much but thinking there's no way in hell she's going back to sleep for a while.

The video turns off on its own, never noticed by her.]