Entry tags:

dream, ooc

➝ the dream

❀ DREAM ❀


He was standing on a shoreline, looking out over a raging sea, the waves crashing in over the rocks and splashing him with foam. Every time he blinked it seemed to shift to red, like blood, and it stained his naked skin. The next second, it was just salty sea water instead. The sky above was as enraged as the sea, lightning striking and blinding the area, thunder clapping so loudly that one would think the very mountains would crumble.

If he turned around, he could see a strange forest behind him, the trees seemingly made from brush strokes, creating a rolled circle at the top and ending with a squiggly line as the trunk… all colored as black as ink. There was no other vegetation as far as the eye could see, and the ink-trees seemed both beautiful and threatening at the same time. The ground was devoid of grass, but covered with sakura petals instead. Strange, seeing there was no sakura tree around, only those strokes of ink.

Wisps of white hair whipped against his cheek and he could hear his own heartbeat fall into the same rhythm as the thundering sky. Part of him wanted to continue into the forest, yet the pull from the sea was much stronger, and soon he felt cold water around his feet. He continued out into the water until it completely surrounded him, and he was surprised to see how quiet it had become.

No thunder.
No roaring waves.

Only a strange peace.

It was then he realized that he was running out of air, lungs screaming, and his heart suddenly racing. He tried to swim back to the surface, yet no matter how hard he tried, there was no surface to find. Slowly floating down to the bottom, unable to breathe, there was only darkness around him. Thinking this was the end, he started to close his eyes.

So close to death, light shone through the darkness, surrounding him and bringing peace yet again. He could feel movements around him, soft fins and hard scales. Opening his eyes again, he found himself surrounded by two large koi fish. Circling him, over and over, until the sea disappeared. It was soon followed by the sky and quickly joined by the shoreline, the forest and the black ink trees. A few moments later, there was nothing left. Just an empty space of whiteness, the koi still swimming around him. Looking over at one of them, he could see a reflection in its scales.

He couldn’t recognize his own face.