PETBE

Dreams were coming and vanishing. Dreams about my mother being close to me. Muffling noises of her songs. She was reading me stories. Then the other dream would be her running away. Telling Mammon to take me out of her hands. Staring at me with disgust. The next dream was Nezha and Minerva smiling at me, before pushing me away.

I felt my entire body turning heavier as hands were trying to pull me to the deep end of darkness.

No. No please, I can’t. Not until.

There was a door near me. The hands were gone. When I opened it I saw a familiar room with a girl staring at me. Dark raven eyes and her very short hair tied to a pin.

There was her scar covering half her face. And her expression. She was soft, and kind. Mara could not have an expression like this.

‘’I will come’’She muffled, cupping my cheek.’’I will come.’’

‘’You are a dream.’’I cried, moving away from her.’’You are lying you are not real’’

She blinked and her hand reached down from my face to my wrist. Her eyes softened even more.

‘’She is coming’’

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Her voice. Her voice was different. Echoing, deeper and almost harsher than the voice the tone she used to have. And her hair wasn’t so short.

‘’Who are-’’

I opened my eyes, feeling every bit of my bones ready to break. I tried to scream but someone bit me.

It was a girl older than me. Loose fabrics on her body and her wrist tied to a giant man as he was trying to push her away.

‘’What…’’I drooled heavily to the floor as my knees shrank close to me.

The bright light blinded my eyes, almost making me shed more tears than I had now.

‘’Where are you taking her?’’I whispered dryly.

The giant ignored me as the girl kept screaming. ‘’No, don’t please’’

The man kept dragging her as her eyes had nothing. No emotions, no light. There was nothing like a plain dark void for people to get sunk in.

And when the girl vanished, the door closed.

‘’To Stolas’’A voice echoed from outside the room. Almost pitchy

‘’Or wherever he wants her to be.’’

I swallowed harshly.’’Who are you?’’I asked him, forcing my own legs to stand up.

The man did not reply but I knew he was there.

‘’What..’’ A terrifying thought came when I saw the girl being dragged.’’What will happen to me?’’

The man remained silent once more. And then he spoke all so gently.

‘’She is coming.’’

‘’Mara?’’ I asked trying to walk all so close, trying to get away from all the bodies.’’You know where she is?’’

The air in the room became once more thicker. My head began to spin. And the man was gone.