Chapter 68: Ultimate nightmare
Talim was in a dark and sinister place. It seemed to be underground.
She was among about thirty men. They were as confused as she was.
Suddenly, everything rumbled. After some seconds of silence, everything rumbled again.
Rumbles came after one another, until a huge monster with red skin entered the place.
Talim saw in horror how the giant's heart was beating in the middle of his chest, in sight.
She was about to scream when she noticed the giant was carrying a big rock. He laughed and threw it at her. Talim managed to avoid it, but the rock killed her fellows.
She looked at the giant again. Surprisingly, a masked man was on his neck, holding a katana.
The monster approached her. Talim stayed still and, when the giant was right in front of her, the masked man stuck his katana on the monster's neck. The monster's enormous body was about to fall on Talim.
The girl screamed while the giant's corpse pounced on her, and at that very moment she woke up in the mill. Once again, it had just been a nightmare, but once again, it had seemed too real.
The worst thing was that now she hadn't seen the deaths of two or three people. They were almost thirty.
If the nightmares had a real basis, she had to do something to prevent them from happening any more.
She was a priestess, so maybe she had some powers she still didn't know, such as foreseeing.
She decided to get started. She talked to the oldest boy she was taking care of, who was just a couple of years younger than her, and told him to protect the other kids while she was away.
The boy agreed and she promised to come back.
Finally, although still not knowing where to go, Talim left the mill.