Nightmare

by Little Patch of Heaven

It's a nightmare, because everything is wrong - so very, very wrong. And soon, very soon, they will all wake and there will be laughs and jokes because this is just a nightmare. -spoilers for book 15 and up- .02 - Fai .04 - Subaru .07 - Kazuki

4. Hunt

-H-U-N-T-

-S.U.B.A.R.U.-

The young girl is scared. So, so, so deathly terrified and scared, and her fear is killing her.

And the hunter can feel that fear, so much fear that it is tangible, and he just wants to comfort the girl. He is suffering because the girl is suffering, which is strange and different and weird.

But he can't help it, because even though the girl is prey and he is the hunter, they shared the same fate. They were both trapped in the eternal sleep that has only just now become a nightmare. They were together even though they weren't the same, and they both feel the young girl's fear as they watch the battle taking place right before them.

And the hunter feels for the people, even though he doesn't know them and they don't know him because he too is scared of the thing fighting his brother and fighting the girl's friends. And he knows it's not human and it is not what he and his brother are and he is scared and the others are scared and there is so much fear and pain and blood.

And the hunter wants to comfort the prey, because he is no longer the hunter and the prey is no longer his prey. They have all become the victims, and that thing - thing, because he doesn't know what it is, he just knows it's not human - that humanlike thing that has no emotion and a gaze that pierces your soul…

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….is hunting them all.