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Here's my attempt at making a different type of Esca story, so here!

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Gaean Dreams

For Euphimia, her dreams always foretold the future, even though she could do nothing to change it. If she dreamed it, it was sure to come true, no matter who it was about. As the oldest of three, she'd foretold the birth of her other two siblings, when they would move, and other large family decisions. She foretold the deaths of people she knew, and often she would be told to not speak of her dreams, for fear she would foretell something even more ominous. It wasn't her fault she was a dream-seer, but as she got older, her dreams would often turn for the worse.

Never before had she had a dream about herself, but because of her history of being dead-on, the dreams she was about to have would bring a shock to her family.

"Where…am I…?"

The forlorn girl stood overlooking a large city, surrounded by a natural wall of rock and forest. As she looked up, she saw the Earth and moon in the sky, rather large for the planet she was on not to be visible. The wind blew through her hair, which flowed to her shoulders. The smell of grass overwhelmed her senses, as she bent down and picked a purple flower she'd never seen before in her life. It had a soothing scent as she lifted it to her nose, not unlike a mixture of lavender and basil.

As she stood back up, she spotted a pair of white wings flying towards her. "A bird? No…it's too large…an angel? But that's impossible…"

She woke up, straightening her light pink yukata automatically, a scattering of flower petals on the bottom. Holding her forehead as she sat up, she found it was barely dawn. She sighed and got up, going to the bathroom to shower and get ready for the day before she would go down and eat breakfast with her parents. She thought about her dream, thinking how implausible it was, a person with wings flying to her, a planet so close that the Earth and the moon were in the sky like that. Maybe it wasn't a foretelling dream, but she'd never had normal dreams before. She'd have to talk with her parents about this.

She was blow-drying her hair when her little sister, Cornelia, came into the bathroom to brush her teeth. She was quite the opposite of her sister, rather bouncy and happy, but then again, she wasn't a dream-seer, but she had powers to sense emotions from people, so she knew when her sister had a bad foretelling dream. She brushed her teeth before running a comb through her ebony curls, looking up at her elder sister by three years with her just as dark eyes.

"Euphy, are you okay? You seem confused this morning, not so downhearted after you've had a dream. Was it a puzzling dream about someone you don't know yet?"

"Yes and no, Cornelia. I'm going to talk about it during breakfast."

The elder girl shut the door and pulled on her sailor uniform, white shirt with a light blue trim and blue cuffs, dark blue bow tied around the collar, and a light blue pleated skirt that went down to her knees. She pulled on her navy blue socks and brushed her straight whitish-blonde hair, her pale gold eyes always hooded because of her usually heavy mood.

"In a couple years I'll be in your school uniform, Euphy! Maybe I'll be able to have yours, since you'll graduate before then!"

"Perhaps, if I don't dream that you die in a horrific way."

"Eeek! Don't say that! You might curse me!"

"I wouldn't be able to, Cornelia. Don't worry about it."

Her voice, lower pitched than any other girl her age, made her seem even more depressed. Perhaps this person she would meet would make her happy, but then again, she might be dreaming of something impossible.

"Come on, Euphy! It's time for breakfast!" the youngest of the three, their younger brother Sebastian, who had dark hair and eyes like the middle sister, called as he passed the bathroom.

Euphimia came out and walked downstairs, sitting at the breakfast table, where her father, mother and brother were sitting, sitting in her place next to her mother. Her mother, pale blonde with blue eyes, smiled at her firstborn.

"Euphy, what's the forecast today?"

"I had a rather odd dream last night, something I've never dreamed before."

"Well then, let's hear it," her father, raven-haired and dark-eyed, urged.

"I was standing in a field, overlooking a large city with a natural formation of rock and a thick forest surrounding it."

"You had a dream about yourself?" her mother asked, curious. "That's never happened before. Where is this place you were? Have you ever been there before?"

"No, I haven't. When I looked up at the sky, I saw the Earth and the moon, like a pair of moons. The wind was blowing, a strong smell of grass dominating over everything else. I bent down and picked a small violet flower I've never seen before in my life, and when I smelled it, it was a mix of lavender and basil."

"No flower I've ever smelled has that scent," her father observed, since he was a rather well-known botanist. "Go on. Was there anything else?"

"Wait dear," her mother interrupted. "Euphy, you say that the Earth and the moon were in the sky of this place? But how is that possible?"

"I don't know, Mother," Euphimia admitted. "The last part was the strangest. As I looked towards the city again, I saw a pair of white wings coming towards me. At first I thought it was a bird, but as they came closer, it was a winged person. It was then I woke up."

Her parents looked just as puzzled as she was, before her mother's eyes brightened. "Perhaps you were in heaven, Euphy! Maybe you're…going to die…" the woman trailed off, looking troubled.

Her father patted her head. "Maybe it'll be your time to go and this place you're seeing is the afterlife, the person coming towards you is the angel of death."

Euphimia considered, although she hadn't felt like she'd been dead in the dream, she'd felt very alive. But what else could that world be; unless there was a world hidden from everyone by a power even greater than the magicians on Earth, though that didn't seem feasible? If this was a dream of the near future, could it be that she was going to die? Then why didn't she have a dream about her actual death?

Everything was so bewildering at this moment in time.

If you all wanted to know, I based Euphimia on a character from an anime series called X, he was a dream-seer named Kankyo! Yay!

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