A/N: Written for the Duel World Challenge, vs. Nightmare Penguin.
Dreams and Nightmares
5. Nightmare II
She'd thought, once upon a time in that little span of life where fairy-tales had existed, before she became old enough to suffer nightmares for what they were, that she'd get to live in a world full of sunlight and happiness. When she'd had her picture-book with that yellow circle in the middle of it –
But that was before the purge that wiped out what proof remained of the old world. And then it was just the stories those old people who still remembered could tell, as the world grew slowly colder and people began to wander like dreamless wraiths.