The Dream
@ncheart
Street spilled through the window and warmed the dark hall. A golden contrast to the bland, concrete walls of the group-home. At the end of a line of dorms was her old room. She had scribbled ‘Neraine Koh’ onto a note card and hung it on the door. The echoes of troubled youth: arguing, music, laughing; It was never this quiet. Neraine pushed open the door to a room stripped bare of her belongings. That’s right, the bureaucracy kicked her out on her eighteenth birthday. She hadn’t been here in over five years.
This was a break in reality. The illusions of a fugue state twisted in the veneer of her memories. Neraine would never walk these halls again willingly. Not even in her lucid dreams. Despite this space being hers, she felt the trepidation of one uninvited. The border of minds intermingled at times, crossed and tangled. The High Priestess would have some esoteric, tantric explanation for it all. Neraine had her own: weird magic crap.
“Alright, let’s get this over with.” Neraine’s hand fell from the door knob and she pivoted to face the shadows. “Who the hell are you?”













