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Emery stood on an empty plain. Her red eyes scanned the area around her, seeing nothing in every direction. Then she looked up, feeling something cold hit her face. She saw clouds slowly turning grey, as it began to rain. Her eyes grew wide and she gasped in surprise when she felt something tug on her pant leg. Putting a hand to her heart, she sighed in relief seeing it was only a kid.
"You scared me." She said, thankful she wasn't alone. The child didn't reply immediately, and it was then Emery noticed he was wearing a mask.
"Can I ask…a question?" he asked, "…what makes you happy?"
Emery looked sad. She then opened her mouth to speak, but no words came out. Her eyes became wide with alarm, and then she noticed it was raining harder, but she couldn't hear it either. The next moment, she would have gasped if she had a voice. The clouds had briefly parted, but what she saw was anything but the sun. It was in the shape of a heart, with several spikes protruding from each side, with the most frightening eyes she had ever seen. After gaping at the sight she must have been hallucinating, she looked back at the child in front of her when she noticed something out of the corner of her eye. Wherever she was, everything became black and white; except for something she hadn't noticed before standing a reasonable distance behind the child. Her eyes locked on the figure as it slowly came closer. It was completely crimson red, except for two bright orange…eyes? As the creature stepped closer, Emery noticed its arms. Oh, its arms...she felt a petrifying fear the moment she saw them. They were two long, whip-like tendrils that dragged behind the creature as it walked. Emery gasped the next minute when she noticed the kid had disappeared. She jerked her head in every direction looking for the child, but found nothing. Then she finally turned her head ahead of her and to the creature in front of her, just standing there, hardly five feet away. Her eyes became as wide as humanely possible, and then she saw one of its tendrils wrapped around her arm she let out a blood-curdling scream. The creature seemed to laugh at her, and then it threw its other arm at her so it coiled itself tightly around her neck, its voice sounding oddly feminine. The rain made her tears simply look like water running down her face, and then the creature did something Emery wasn't expecting. Its arm that was wrapped around her arm let go, and the end of it flicked itself along her face, wiping her tears away. It was then Emery opened her eyes again, shocked. She looked at the creature still in fear, and confusion. Why had it done that? Was it not going to kill her? The creature's head was tilted to the side as it looked at her, and she looked it in the eyes. Its eyes were red, just like hers. And they didn't look angry, or crazy.
They looked lonely, and sad.
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