Dreams and Nightmares

by reminiscent-afterthought

Otokoyo: it's a game that, win or lose, rewrites their world. Sorincha has learnt this, and now Hikora will learn it too.

13. Nightmare VI

A/N: Written for the Duel World Challenge, vs. Nightmare Penguin.

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Dreams and Nightmares
13. Nightmare VI

This time, it was Hikora's turn to have the nightmare. He'd always had them, like every other child in the Tokyo's countryside, watching those eerily flickering lights powered by children's souls. But he'd stopped screaming to them, stopped when Sorincha had been born, because he had to be a brave big brother to his little sister. He had to be strong for her.

But his worst nightmares were of Sorincha being swept away, swallowed up by that city, by those lights, strung up high and being sucked for the power that fuelled them, whatever strange and horrible power that was.