Prompt #5: Murciélago / Segunda etapa; June 2011. Rating: PG.
Murciélago / Segunda etapa
Orihime suffered nightmares after her return from Hueco Mundo.
The spring wind rattled the utility poles and she dreamt of a woman with a fish's teeth. She heard wolves screaming in the night rain. Long tongues leered at her and a hidden voice laughed. Panthers chased her over grey dunes. In June, the waxy moonlight flooded through her blinds and she dreamt of a man clothed in white, whose name was Death.
Waking alone in her apartment, she would imagine a devil's silhouette in the shadows—spindly and horned, its black wings loosely unfurled.
And then she wouldn't feel afraid.