Yay for random writing streak! =D
21: Repentance
They had dreams, sometimes, of a tall unclear figure asking them questions and rating them on them (they had them at the same time, with the same questions, but they didn't know that).
The questions could really be anything from: 'And how did you like the weather we had today?' to: 'Do you remember the look in so-and-so's eyes when you killed him/her?'
They almost always answered, but then, occasionally, the figure would bend down to look them in the eyes, asking them loud and clear: "What is your repentance?" And they couldn't answer, for they didn't know. Not at any which point in time. It might be a bond that was hurting them in its need for expression despite the danger it posed; it might be waking up in the middle of the night mind, body, heart, and soul all aching with remorse, pain, and fear incurred by one dream; it might be taste of ash in their mouth as they ate; or it might be the glimpses of happiness, which they perpetually turned their back on, so that they could keep working to change everything. Or, possibly, it was these dreams where they were questioned as if on trial.
The tall figure would soon tire of the indecisiveness and would ask them a new question about anything.
Totally uninspired. =p If I didn't know this was all about Royai, I would never have known.
But LOLs for random dream characters.
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