I awoke to a deafening sound….
….It was a sound like a cry of pain, like nails on a chalkboard. I sprang up in my bed to find that the cry was in my own mouth; my screaming deafening everything around me. Then suddenly, I stopped; my blood-curdling scream came to such an abrupt halt, it seemed as though my voice box had burst from the stress.
I stood up from my bed on shaky legs; I could see the cold, black tears that my nightmares always caused running down my face in my reflection in the mirror on my bedroom door. Never could I figure out why these horrifying night mares that I had had on almost a nightly basis for most of my life caused my tears to turn black, and not the tears of pain and sorrow that I cried frequently, whose tears came out a beautiful, crystal clear.
Most people always told me this was a gift, these nightmares of mine…. They know not the intense terror that these nightmares bring me each night. Some gift this is, indeed. "This is no gift," I would tell them. How many sleepless nights have I had to suffer through, too afraid to close my eyes again? What kind of gift causes the beholder such pain? Such terror each night for all their life? None. No, this is no gift…. This is a curse.
My sister, Liana, was always the opposite of me. She had snow-white hair and emerald-green eyes; as opposed to me, with my jet-black hair and deep blue eyes. Her laughter could fill a room light moonlight and her smile could light the way through the darkest tunnel…. Once again, so unlike myself. I would have rather shy away from others than be with them long enough to laugh and tell jokes; and my smile always seemed to frighten people, so I never showed it anymore.
With all these differences between us, it was only natural that Liana be blessed with the reverse affect of my curse. She always awoke rested and joyful, wanting to tell me of her wonderful dreams, but I resented her for her gift and my curse. She was born of the light and I the darkness. And that is why the story always went, "both siblings could foresee the future; Liana in her dreams, and Dominik in his nightmares."