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Fri 29th Dec 2023 08:50

As my dreams burn...

by Fraan

I've had that dream again...the one where everything appears to be more in focus than all of the other dreams you have ever had before. It always starts the same I am standing alone while the city burns around me. There is a monster that is just too large to fit into the city like it is up in the sky or beyond it. I don't know if I am describing that correctly or not, but the monster is causing everything to turn into chaos. More people that look like me, but aren't me are fleeing through a portal to someplace safe. I know I must run, but I can not move from fear that overwhelms me. It chokes me and holds me firmly in place where I stand. The screaming around me intensifies as the monster opens its jaws and as it closes the distance to our city it engulfs the light more and more.
 
Then suddenly I woke up...alone in my hut covered in a cold sweat. My eyes adjust to the world around me, the magic ley lines streaming through the ground under my feet let me know that I was just dreaming.

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