Lily's eyes widened in horror as she stared at the news article in front of her. The headline read: "Local Man Dies Suddenly of Heart Attack". But it was the name that caught her attention. The name of the man who had died was the same name as the man she had killed in the Dead Realm.
Lily felt a chill run down her spine as she read on. The article described the man as a kind and gentle soul, loved by his family and friends. He had died suddenly, without warning, of a heart attack.
Lily's mind reeled as she tried to process what she was reading. She had killed a man in the Dead Realm, and now it seemed that a real person with the same name had died in the waking world.
Over the next few months, Lily discovered that this was not an isolated incident. Every time she had killed someone in the Dead Realm, a real person with the same name would die in the waking world. Always suddenly, always without warning.
Lily was consumed by guilt and horror. She had thought that her actions in the Dead Realm were just a product of her own subconscious, but now she realized that they had real-world consequences.
She became withdrawn and isolated, unable to shake the feeling that she was a murderer. She would see the faces of the people she had killed in the Dead Realm everywhere she went, haunting her.
Lily's friends and family tried to reach out to her, but she pushed them away. She couldn't bear the thought of being around people, of pretending to be normal, when she knew what she had done.
As the years went by, Lily's guilt and horror never faded. She became a shadow of her former self, haunted by the memories of what she had done. She knew that she would never be able to escape the consequences of her actions, and that thought consumed her.