After days of searching, the police had given up. They had looked everywhere and Leto wouldn't appear. Leto's roommate, Rada, had called them as soon as she saw the note her friend had left. Leto had been under lots of stress, the girl explained, however she had never suspected she would disappear like that. The police asked her all sorts of questions, and as soon as Castor, Leto's boyfriend, arrived, they asked him many more. After a week they were told by the police that there was nothing else to do.
Deep inside a forest, hiding inside a cave was Leto. She would speak to herself softly, as if she were with someone else, nursing herself to sleep. The stress had been too much for her and she snapped, not able to tell what was real anymore. That was how Salma found her.
Salma had gone hiking in the forest and a thunderstorm surprised her, so she ran for shelter into a nearby cave, hoping for it to be devoid of wildlife. That was hoe she met Leto. The lost girl didn't pay any attention to her new company. Instead, she kept muttering to herself. Salma approached her carefully, and slipped into conversation.
-Why are you hidden here?
-Everyone hates me, they think I'm lousy, they wish I were dead. I can hear them saying so. Every time I turn around I hear them planning to hurt me, and when I look back at them they act as if nothing had happened. But I know! They hate me!
Leto grew wild and started hitting herself, Salma tried to stop her, but it was clear she couldn't. She desisted of taking her out of the cave. Salma distanced herself from Leto and saw her slowly fall asleep. She looked younger then. She needed help, that was clear. Salma went out of the cave and dialed the emergency services. She stayed until they took Leto away. It was heartbreaking to see her desperately shout how they all wanted to kill her. What could make a person have such terrible hallucinations? How could anybody live with them?
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