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For Reviewers: Want to take a guess at who the person is? Please tell a both before and after thought because at the bottom in helps an awful lot in deciding.
Dreams: The way our subconsciousness deals with everything that is happening in our conscious world.
Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.
That was the only thought that my entire mind was concentrating on, and it was even harder to follow the order than to think it. I was running, I could feel my legs moving underneath me, and I could practically hear the sound of my heartbeat in my ears, drowning out the footsteps that I knew was infront of me.
Why was I running?
Or maybe for a better question, what was I running from.....or to? I couldn't quite get past that thought when I realized that my lungs were bursting for air.
Breathe. Breathe.......
The scenery....it was changing..... what in the world was going on?
Red.
Crimson.
Crimson Red....like blood?
But that didn't make sense. Again I took in a large breath or air, and found it pure, not tainted by the metallic smell of blood or sweat, or even skin. Hell, I couldn't even smell my own scent.
But it's right there infront of my eyes. Hold on a second......it.....blinked?
And suddenly, everything around me was moving, and I was no longer running, for I was at a ledge....a cliff.... and.... where had that thing gone? It was right here a minute ago...but now....
A breeze flew right into my face, and I looked up into the sky...
and saw something falling.....it looked almost.... human?
Yes, that was fabric surrounding it, it was wearing clothing, and indeed, it was falling.
Red.
Red hair was flowing around the head, and even from this distance I could tell it was a girl...no, more like a woman.
She continued to fall, and as she got closer, I stepped closer to the edge. I was going to catch her. Well, no body had ever awarded me for being smart, but it was the only thing that I half thought about as she got closer.
Ten feet....... Five feet....... Two feet.......
She slipped right through my grasp, and from the one second that I had a look at her face, I could tell that she wasn't even conscious.
Shit.
I jumped after her, hoping to catch her. Jumped right off that ledge in hopes to catch someone that I didn't even know, who could already be dead....
My arms stretched out again, wanting to catch her, to touch her.....
But the air was distancing me from her....or was it her from me?
Darkness surrounded the both of us, and the only thing I could barely see at that moment was her as her back was heading first into the impact that I knew would come.
And then....
as if the darkness had suddenly decided the falling had come to an end...
She disappeared, was gone. And I continued to fall, my arms numbly stretched out to catch her, and I was falling.
Falling.
Falling in the dark.
And then, as I closed my eyes, preparing myself for the impact, I felt myself crush into something soft.
Soft?
My body moved automatically, raising up in the bed that I had fallen asleep in just a few hours earlier. I am in my bed. I am alive in my bed. I am alive, breathing, and in my bed at the palace.
The point being: I am alive.
My hands. I stared at them still out-stretched infront of me. They were empty. I hadn't caught her. She was probably dead. But if I'm alive, then that must mean that it was just a dream. A dream.
Where the hell did that dream come from?
A trickle of something....of sweat, ran down the side of my face. I was breathing hard, taking in short ragged breathes, my shirt was stuck to my chest, and a sudden wave of heat caught up with me. I threw off my sheets clumsily, and made myself stand up on the cold floor. I walked opened the door quietly, and walked down the hallway in ease. I was headed towards the balcony, headed towards the only thing that could calm me down right now.
I opened the doorway to the balcony, slipped through the crack that I had opened, and left it. Walking straight towards the railing, I swung my legs over it. And sitting on top of the railing, I looked across the scene that was given to me.
It was still dark, but I could see the light brightening up the sky from the east, tainting it a light blue, only to become darker as the sky progressed. The town below the balcony was eerily silent, lacking it usualy bust of dealing and noise. Everything was shut, or boarded up, with a few windows having glass. It was the market place, the most likely place for thieves. Sunrise wasn't far away, and the breeze that came from it brought me back to the dream.
It had been so real. so much like a reality that it was frightening. And to actually feel the gut wrenching horror in the bottom of my stomach is alien to everything that is my nature.
Who was the girl?
Or, for a better question, what happened to her?
Beep….Beep….Beep….
"This is not a test. Repeating: This is NOT a test. Infiltration in Sector : 4 BD."
Infiltration in Sector : 4 BD? But that's where my sister is staying! As the alarm sounded louder, and I heared in the distance footsteps of soldiers on the way, I was already racing against time to get to her. I have to get to her before anything happened. I pushed the dream into the back of my brain as I barely managed to turn another corner.
The dream……
what if…..
it wasn't….
just a dream?
For Reviewers: Want to take a guess at who the person is? Please tell a both before and after thought because at the bottom in helps an awful lot in deciding.
Dreams: The way our subconsciousness deals with everything that is happening in our conscious world.
Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.
That was the only thought that my entire mind was concentrating on, and it was even harder to follow the order than to think it. I was running, I could feel my legs moving underneath me, and I could practically hear the sound of my heartbeat in my ears, drowning out the footsteps that I knew was infront of me.
Why was I running?
Or maybe for a better question, what was I running from.....or to? I couldn't quite get past that thought when I realized that my lungs were bursting for air.
Breathe. Breathe.......
The scenery....it was changing..... what in the world was going on?
Red.
Crimson.
Crimson Red....like blood?
But that didn't make sense. Again I took in a large breath or air, and found it pure, not tainted by the metallic smell of blood or sweat, or even skin. Hell, I couldn't even smell my own scent.
But it's right there infront of my eyes. Hold on a second......it.....blinked?
And suddenly, everything around me was moving, and I was no longer running, for I was at a ledge....a cliff.... and.... where had that thing gone? It was right here a minute ago...but now....
A breeze flew right into my face, and I looked up into the sky...
and saw something falling.....it looked almost.... human?
Yes, that was fabric surrounding it, it was wearing clothing, and indeed, it was falling.
Red.
Red hair was flowing around the head, and even from this distance I could tell it was a girl...no, more like a woman.
She continued to fall, and as she got closer, I stepped closer to the edge. I was going to catch her. Well, no body had ever awarded me for being smart, but it was the only thing that I half thought about as she got closer.
Ten feet....... Five feet....... Two feet.......
She slipped right through my grasp, and from the one second that I had a look at her face, I could tell that she wasn't even conscious.
Shit.
I jumped after her, hoping to catch her. Jumped right off that ledge in hopes to catch someone that I didn't even know, who could already be dead....
My arms stretched out again, wanting to catch her, to touch her.....
But the air was distancing me from her....or was it her from me?
Darkness surrounded the both of us, and the only thing I could barely see at that moment was her as her back was heading first into the impact that I knew would come.
And then....
as if the darkness had suddenly decided the falling had come to an end...
She disappeared, was gone. And I continued to fall, my arms numbly stretched out to catch her, and I was falling.
Falling.
Falling in the dark.
And then, as I closed my eyes, preparing myself for the impact, I felt myself crush into something soft.
Soft?
My body moved automatically, raising up in the bed that I had fallen asleep in just a few hours earlier. I am in my bed. I am alive in my bed. I am alive, breathing, and in my bed at the palace.
The point being: I am alive.
My hands. I stared at them still out-stretched infront of me. They were empty. I hadn't caught her. She was probably dead. But if I'm alive, then that must mean that it was just a dream. A dream.
Where the hell did that dream come from?
A trickle of something....of sweat, ran down the side of my face. I was breathing hard, taking in short ragged breathes, my shirt was stuck to my chest, and a sudden wave of heat caught up with me. I threw off my sheets clumsily, and made myself stand up on the cold floor. I walked opened the door quietly, and walked down the hallway in ease. I was headed towards the balcony, headed towards the only thing that could calm me down right now.
I opened the doorway to the balcony, slipped through the crack that I had opened, and left it. Walking straight towards the railing, I swung my legs over it. And sitting on top of the railing, I looked across the scene that was given to me.
It was still dark, but I could see the light brightening up the sky from the east, tainting it a light blue, only to become darker as the sky progressed. The town below the balcony was eerily silent, lacking it usualy bust of dealing and noise. Everything was shut, or boarded up, with a few windows having glass. It was the market place, the most likely place for thieves. Sunrise wasn't far away, and the breeze that came from it brought me back to the dream.
It had been so real. so much like a reality that it was frightening. And to actually feel the gut wrenching horror in the bottom of my stomach is alien to everything that is my nature.
Who was the girl?
Or, for a better question, what happened to her?
Beep….Beep….Beep….
"This is not a test. Repeating: This is NOT a test. Infiltration in Sector : 4 BD."
Infiltration in Sector : 4 BD? But that's where my sister is staying! As the alarm sounded louder, and I heared in the distance footsteps of soldiers on the way, I was already racing against time to get to her. I have to get to her before anything happened. I pushed the dream into the back of my brain as I barely managed to turn another corner.
The dream……
what if…..
it wasn't….
just a dream?