dreamcrystals | 001 - Dream Recording

Sender: Kazuma Asogi
To: Everyone
Subject: Dream recording

CW: Blood, Dead Bodies, Drowning

The dream starts in darkness, cold and quiet. The muffled sound of something like the swing of a sword cuts through the silence, and someone screaming. Laughter, unsettling gleeful laughter.

It gets warm, a fire in color, appearing and spreading. The screams of people get louder. There are flashes of grayed out people laying on the ground, faces obscured like a staticky television. The laughter still echoes, getting louder. Then a voice speaks up. It sounded like Kazuma, and yet not. There was an edge to it, deeper and wild.

You can't run. You can't hide.

A flash, a clawed hand rising up to strike at something, or someone. The people laying on the ground now visibly show claw wounds. The blood is in color, red.

My time may be up, but I've always been a part of you. Never forget that.

The laying people flash before him again, but now they're in color, their faces no longer obscured as they flash by with the same shocked expressions.

The dream will abruptly end soon after, left with a feeling that someone just broke the surface of water.

[Unbeknownst to Kazuma, he isn't aware about his nightmare having been recorded, currently more rattled by it as he wakes from sleep in a cold sweat.]

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[We really like to throw around the f word tonight. His reluctance to let anyone in is still clear, especially now. People wouldn't understand, it's a burden he needs to carry himself. Admittedly, it's the one thing he still hasn't been willing to try.]

Even at the cost of hurting them?

Well... it's possible they might get hurt. But it's also possible they won't, right? And if they're willing to risk that for your sake, that says a lot about them, and about how they think of you, doesn't it?

[Those words left him thinking long and hard. How they think of him...? Despite knowing what lurked inside him? That voice still tells him no, they shouldn't have to deal with this burden that only belongs to him. Or perhaps, that voice is just his lack of trust in others. ]

I suppose, that's one way to put it. [A part him wants to believe in those words, but he just can't quite accept it. He's been having doubts about himself. How can he expect others to believe him?]

[It's easy for others to fall under the sway of darkness, especially if they're alone and on their own. But having friends can make fighting that darkness a lot easier.]

I think you've got good friends, if they're willing to risk that.

[. . .] Well, I thank you for the insightful input. It'll give me things to think about.

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