A drabble for the Dreams challenge on xoxLewrahxox's forum
Dreams
Write a 100- or 500- word drabble around the theme "dreams."
She screams.
The bedsheets are soft, fine silk shielding her skinny body, sticking to the clammy flesh. Her heart beats frantically, frail and maddened, seemingly so close to her protruding ribs it could jump straight out of her chest.
Never fear, the silence murmurs. You are safe, the warm bed seems to whisper everytime the fabric brushes against her.
But she's never been safe, and she took her demons away with her. God, the demons are trapped within, they cackle in the echoes of her screams.
Demented.
Curled up in a foreign bed, Bellatrix wails for her long lost sanity.