There's some gaps in what happens next, but the older brother is at some point, thrown through the window of where they were and out onto the grassy ground below. They seem to have been inside an attic to an older building in some rural area.
When he comes to, he's trembling, and tries to carefully shake off some of the broken glass from his clothes and hair, until he sees his brother, in FRONT of the window he'd just come out of. But not only was he simply hovering there, he was perfectly upside down with his clothes and hair etc working against gravity, as if he were standing right-side-up on a platform, and that the rest of the world were upside down instead.
He has a strange look on his face; eyes wide, but with something like vacant confusion hiding a terror that wasn't able or allowed to reach the surface. But what the older brother also sees, is a dark presence looming just behind him, those same piercing eyes from the screen peering just over the younger one's shoulder. And out of that almost formless shape, dark gnarled hands had wrapped themselves around his neck.
The older brother calls out his name in fear and dismay, and the younger looks on in even more confusion. In a small voice, he croaks out. "Why aren't you coming with me?" Just before the entity tightens its grip on his neck and throws him directly towards the ground with immense force. There's a layered, wet, cracking noise as he hits the ground and crumples into a pile.
Screams from the older brother are met with a torn, reversed laughter, as the eyes of the entity watch him now, squinting in gleeful malice, before its dark form begins to twist and seems to vanish from reality.
The next parts are choppy. The boy is kneeling over what remains of his brother, trying to, somehow, get him to wake up, though nothing that mangled could ever hope to be alive again.
Eventually, they're found.
He's pulled away by paramedics to be looked over before their father yanks him from them. He's gripping him, too tight, by the shoulders. He's shaking him, demanding to know what happened.
The boy doesn't answer. He doesn't hear him, because the ringing in his ears has drowned out everything else.
Someone manages to get him to let go and pulls him aside, as another quietly guides the boy to the back of a car. There is muffled arguing as the door closes, and the boy stops being aware of much after that.
At some point, there is a trial that he doesn't understand the cause for. He is blamed for pushing his younger brother out that window, though no mere fall could have caused the amount of force needed to cause such damage to a human body. He is blamed by his father, who looks at him with more hate in his eyes than he'd ever experienced before. His mother does not help. She does not look at him. She holds her face in her hands and does not stop crying.
He tries to tell his side of the story. They were only curious. He doesn't understand what happened, but it did happen. He is called a liar. His father tells him that he will burn in hell.
The boy is taken into protective custody, as its unsafe to send him home.
There is a funeral with a closed casket, which he is not allowed to get close to. His family does not want him there. He stands with his custodian and watches from afar, feeling the sharp glares of his father and the concerned, weary glances of others, but is now numb to it.
He's told that it's time to leave, and his custodian leads him back to the car they came in. The custodian watches him carefully, and somewhere behind their eyes, watches the same ones that peered through the darkness that night.
This was one of the most vivid, longest dreams (nightmares?) that I've had in a long ass time. Not entirely sure what triggered it.
One thing that was particularly unusual about this dream, is that it kept shifting in... style? Like as if it, in itself, was some kind of movie that was mostly "live action" but would occasionally switch to some style of "animated" from realistic, artistic, to cartoonish, but horrific nonetheless.
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