Watching The Stars Together
Drabble 21: Dream
The flames swallowed him. Wizard screamed, his arms waving wildly, though he found that he could not move them. They were… glued to his sides, numb, lost to his senses. He twisted against his restraints but the flames still engulfed him, still lapped viciously at his cheeks and arms like a whip, cracking and snapping against his skin.
He could hear their – the townsfolk's – jeers, their screams.
"Burn the Wizard, burn the Wizard, burn the Wizard!"
It reached his ears, piercing his eardrums, pounding against them like one does to a drum. Again, again and again.
"Burn the Wizard, burn the Wizard-"
At this point, burning and burning, he wished he could die. Anything to make the pain stop.
"Burn the Wizard, burn the-"
Anything.
"Burn the-"
"Wizard!" There was a new voice, a lighter one, not filled with mockery. It reminded him of a seraph, an angel whose wings spread out in six directions. The flames ebbed, the pain disappeared and Wizard shot upwards, grasping the sheets, his fingers tangled in their uncomfortable warmth. Hikari gasped, her eyes widening as her husband shook in fear.
He turned his head, looking at her with fearful eyes. Wizard could still hear their screams, their laughs as they burned the man they'd perceived to be a threat. Hikari hugged him, and Wizard nestled his head in the crook of her shoulder.
The nightmares never stopped.