Prologue
"Once again I am dreaming of the same place; the samecrystal castle rising from the green grounds of the beautiful island. With every step my bear feet touch the dead waters of the sea and carry me closer to the shore. Everything is peaceful and silent. Silent like death; like the last breath that leaves the body and travels into the unknown.
My eyes do not recognize the shapes and the images they see, and yet, I know where I am. I walk through the endless silver halls. I am searching for her. The only person I have ever called a family. I can barely feel the shine of her star seed. It is fading away with every step, and I try to hurry.
I enter another silver hall, and there, in the middle, I see a white crystal throne. The bodies of her senshi are lying under her feet, as if they were trying to protect her from someone or something. They are also fading. I realize that their star seeds were taken. I look at her fading form. She is too weak to even look at me. Her teary eyes are frozen and in their debts I see a face unknown to me. He is holding all the star seeds of the senshi and is looking at me. I can not see his features. His image is blurring consumed by dark flames of fire. They are everywhere and soon his whole image turns into one big flame. I look intently and realize that it's an eye. It's a lidless eye that is laughing at me. I cannot take my eyes off of it. It is calling me. I resist and slowly it dissolves into nothingness leaving only the princess and me in the silver hall. I try to run to her but my feet won't move. I try to call her name, but suddenly I am mute. She is fading and I cannot do a thing to stop it. As the last traces of her existence are fading into the abyss of time she whispers something to me, and I wake up".
"Well Miss Tomoe, that's a very interesting dream, but our time is up. I'll see you next Monday same time." Janice, my shrink put away her notebook and smiled at me as if encouraging me to leave.
"I'll see you next Monday, Janice". I took my bag, put on my black hoodie and walked out of the building.
I looked at the dark gray sky above and instinctively wrapped my arms around me. It was going to rain. I started in the direction of the nearest subway station. Half way to the station it started to rain heavily. I quickly put on my hood and started running as fast as I could. The heavy raindrops were beating me mercilessly and in the darkness it was hard to make out anything, anyone. A couple of times I bumped into other figures running home or into some kind of a shelter.
I was so focused on reaching my destination which was already just around the corner, that I did not see the large truck heading my way. The last thing that crossed my mind was the ironic situation I was going to be in. The senshi of death killed by a truck.
