The Doppler Series
Blood is Ink Stained with Water
1.02
He had to talk to someone. And it took him almost a week of stewing and concerned questions from his friends before he realised he could. Sure, he couldn't talk to his parents, or the phantom in his brother's body – and thank goodness the break was over, so he didn't have to wake up every night to those eerie too-bright eyes. But his friends were okay. They knew the Digital World. They knew Lucemon.
And, maybe, they'd noticed a little, all on their own.
Or maybe they hadn't, because when he spilled his guts finally, on Takuya's couch, they simply stared at him in surprise. Not horror: not his horror. And then their words: soft, tender – but worst, disbelieving.
And then he awoke, gasping for air in his bed and realised it was just another nightmare.
