Bloodymary fic excerpt, anyone? 👀
Ryland Grace was dreaming of blood again.
An ocean of it, shimmering like rubies, its depths as black and unending as a starless sky.
It surged around him as he treaded, nearly crashing over his head. His arms and legs pumped wildly, desperate to keep him afloat. He searched for a shore, but the red waves stretched forever under a roiling sky. He spat blood from his mouth. He screamed for Rocky, for Adrian, for Stratt, for anyone. But his throat tore, his voice swallowed by the deafening noise of the ocean. All he saw was red.
The waves swelled, and a monstrous screech sounded in his skull. It sent shards of ice down his spine. Something underneath him made the blood bubble, and teeth taller than him emerged from below the surface to surround him. He couldn’t find a gap to swim through. His heart slammed against his sternum on the verge of exploding through his chest. Blood crested over his head, the taste of iron filling his mouth, and suddenly something grasped him by the leg and dragged him down, down, down into the black depths, the teeth closing over him like a cage—
He woke with a start to see Rocky’s carapace above his head within his xenonite tunnel. Rocky made a worried chittering noise and rapped a claw against the barrier.
“Grace make noise in sleep,” he chimed. “Grace okay, question?”
Grace scrubbed a shaking hand over his face and found his cheeks wet with tears. “Yeah, bud…” His throat was scratchy, his voice brittle. “I’m… I’m okay. Just a bad dream.”
“Ohh. Sleep-think,” Rocky said. “Is strange human function.”
Grace couldn’t help the small smile that crossed his face. He felt his pulse slowing back down to normal. “Yeah, it is.” He reached up and fist-bumped the barrier. It was warm under his skin. “Thanks for keeping watch, Rock. I’m sorry if I scared you.”
Rocky tapped the barrier on the other side of Grace’s fist. “Rocky always keep watch,” he said, the musical notes of his words pitched low in his earnestness. “Rocky protect Grace-friend from bad dreams.”
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