22Day 3: Nights
How do you know, when dreams and reality collides?
Sakura, she hasn't heard that name for such a long time. Longer than the days she spent traveling.
"So Sakura, do you know what a dream is and what reality are?" the man asked.
She wondered for a moment, "We don't really know do we, for all we know, we're the dreams."
"That's right," the original replied. "there is no reality, for we aren't one ourselves."
"Tell me Sakura, what is your name?"
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"Kino, wake up." She heard Tain's voice spoke over her.
"What's going on?" Kino asked as she woke up from her slumber. She was in a dark room, certainly not her room in the inn no more. A small light dangled from above. More beds were barely seen around her. Some people woke up and the lights turned on, then another takes their place and the lights were off again.
"Good morning sleepy head." Hermes voice sounded. The bike was right beside her bed which she soon realized was and Ivan Bed.
"Where am I?"
"Your in a sleep room, come, I'll tell you more on our way out, your three days are up." Tain said.
"You see, like in the museum, yes a dome was built." Tain explained as he led them down the endless corridors once more. "But we couldn't make a normal settlement here because of the mist. We used Ivan's blueprints and made a settlement in dreams. For some reasons, we're satisfied by the food we ate there, our body drinks as we drink in our dreams. But of course, we have to be able to tell the difference between dreams and reality so we took turns sleeping, took turns going home. Amazingly, the Ivan Bed worked for your motorrad as well."
"That's right." Hermes interrupted; his headlights were on to light some of the darker parts of the corridors.
"So…I was dreaming?" Kino asked, confused by the long explanation.
"To put it simply, yes, you were." Tain replied. "But that is our country and we like it that way. Real or not."
"Thank you, I had a wonderful time." Kino said, as she exited the gate, speaking with Tain through the small eyehole from which they first spoke.
"If you don't mind Kino, could you leave a sort of signature of yours on that gate, its sort of shows that travelers had actually came here before." Tain asked.
"Sure." Kino said calmly with a smile.
"Thank you." The guard said, closing the hole.
She took out the Woodsman and Cannon and fired three shots at the gate, each hitting in a line of quick succession. The shot rang out throughout the area.
The mist had cleared and Kino saw why the place couldn't become a proper settlement. The place was a barren land and the only plantation there was weeds and a dead oak tree. It gave the look of a desert. The path back up was further and longer than she thought she had climbed the day before.
"Well Hermes, lets get going." She said, putting on her goggles and getting on Hermes.
"Okay, so where to next?" Hermes asked.
She pondered for a moment and continued, "Wherever reality points to." And she was off, up the slope and back to the bumpy road.
"My name," She said, recalling her dream. "is Kino."
Life and dreams goes on, as far as the sun can take you and as far as the moon can guide.