[ What are "awake thoughts"? She thinks of alarm clocks and police sirens and all matters of piercing, deafening noises that immediately fill the air as thoughts are brought into reality— the fire alarms start blaring up and down the halls while the strobe lights flash on and off, searing bright. The wail of sirens swell as vehicles approach, of fire engines as well as police cars because the ground rumbles with two seconds' warning before a blast goes off somewhere inside the school building; the windows in the room behind them shatter with the force of an explosion and the fire spills inward towards that room and theirs and
no subject
they're not waking up. ]