Aug 9, 2020 11:03:20 GMT -5
Post by Rei Shirai on Aug 9, 2020 11:03:20 GMT -5
 | It only has be a dream If we make an effort to call it one. What happens when it becomes a nightmare? |
Rei cocked her hand off to the side, drawing shadows across the ground as shadowy figures would rise from each that stood there. As their feet would emerge from the ground, the tiny creatures would start to move; quickening their steps forward as they ran across the field. It was rare the girl would be out any time that didn’t produce long shadows; sunset was the perfect condition to create shadow puppets after all. However, Rei couldn’t sit still. Her blood almost boiled as she could only stand there very still, creating birds to fly across the sky and a great beast to chase them all. For a moment, she could feel as the shape of the rabbits would change, that ever familiar figure she knew all too well that stained her mind. That feeling of frustration and warmth filled every inch of her body.
She just wanted to feel something else.
The wind swept past the wide springfield, the sound of fire burning and lightning sizzling echoing across the way. The clash of noises echoed in Rei’s ears threatening to swallow up whole as she moved each of the rabbits in specific, erratic movements. More natural. More seamless. No it could never be enough, from the sudden reactions each would turn from a singular command and the way each would move on their own….the shadow dog plopped down by Rei’s side. A feign sense of comfort from deep within her own subconscious….and yet despite herself, she let it comfort her. She had to research more. Learn more. Find more….perhaps a sparring match was what was in order. The puppet master waved her hand and dismissed the rabbit and the birds, leaving only the wolf-like beast to pad alongside her to find an opponent.
This wasn’t enough. It couldn’t just be enough.
Against all odds of imagining they were, in the end, in the worst possible situation they could be in. Like an interlocking chain of children strapped into the world their parents had created, there was no hope. And all Rei could feel was frustration. At least that was something tangible and real. At least she could bring it up on a whim and stare at its existence as she studied here. She wondered if her parents ever felt such a thing. Rei ran her fingers across the shadow at her side, mumbling something soft and quiet under her breath, before she looked around for a suitable sparring partner.
She just wanted to feel something else.
The wind swept past the wide springfield, the sound of fire burning and lightning sizzling echoing across the way. The clash of noises echoed in Rei’s ears threatening to swallow up whole as she moved each of the rabbits in specific, erratic movements. More natural. More seamless. No it could never be enough, from the sudden reactions each would turn from a singular command and the way each would move on their own….the shadow dog plopped down by Rei’s side. A feign sense of comfort from deep within her own subconscious….and yet despite herself, she let it comfort her. She had to research more. Learn more. Find more….perhaps a sparring match was what was in order. The puppet master waved her hand and dismissed the rabbit and the birds, leaving only the wolf-like beast to pad alongside her to find an opponent.
This wasn’t enough. It couldn’t just be enough.
Against all odds of imagining they were, in the end, in the worst possible situation they could be in. Like an interlocking chain of children strapped into the world their parents had created, there was no hope. And all Rei could feel was frustration. At least that was something tangible and real. At least she could bring it up on a whim and stare at its existence as she studied here. She wondered if her parents ever felt such a thing. Rei ran her fingers across the shadow at her side, mumbling something soft and quiet under her breath, before she looked around for a suitable sparring partner.
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