“The power which you seek lies within your heart. Search no further than inside.” With this decree, you at last plummet from the sky like a meteor. As if by intuition, your freefall dive guides you to the pinnacle of the horizon, where the sky meets the sea. Your dream shatters like a looking glass, and you wake safely, soundly in your room. Audino appears to be concerned, almost confused by your expression as you rise from sleep.
Bartz felt himself gasp, and any sort of yell that left him was lost to the wind. He was gliding, high speed, towards the horizon he wasn’t sure he wanted to meet, the image shattering around him and leaving him feeling like he was floating into nothingness.
"Audinooo…?"
Hearing Cocoa’s soft coo, Bartz turned his large, frightened eyes to meet his Audino’s blue ones, his figure sprawled over his bed and his clothes dappled with sweat.
"Ah— C-Cocoa?" The pokemon nodded as though to re-affirm him that, yes, that was his name, and that yes, Bartz was in his room. The brunet quickly sat up, scrubbing his hands over his face to clear his grogginess, shaking his head slightly.
"It was a dream? But… but it was too real, I—" He lowered his hands, his worried eyes moving to meet Cocoa’s. “I guess I can’t fret over dreams, huh?"
Slowly, however, Bartz found himself touching at his back, as though to see if that tethered weight was still there…