Day 1: Sunrise + “no, come back!”
I couldn’t decide between doing OCtober and Fictober, so I have decided to make this even harder by attempting to combine the two prompts as often as possible. Why? Who knows. Maybe I’m a sucker for punishment. But here we go…
Series: Stonebreaker (Original Fiction) Character(s): Adiran & Riin
Adiran rarely remembered his dreams. Only flickers here and there, flitting behind his eyelids in those short moments after waking. As a child, this had bothered him more than he cared to admit, especially because the tighter he tried to cling to them, the faster they slipped between his fingers. Eventually, as he got older, he stopped trying. There were enough frustrations in his life without needlessly adding another.
But lately, things had started to change. At first he dismissed it as an abnormality. Then it happened again, and another time after that. He didn’t have the dream every night, but when he did, it was the same. The same place. Same time. Same people.
It began as it always did, with a sunrise.
Adiran opened his eyes and found himself somewhere south of Vetrose, where the splinterpines grew thick and dark, rolling like a landbound ocean as far as the eye could see. Adiran stood on an unusually tall hill that lay just outside the reach of the trees, as though the forest had wandered to its base, gauged the rise of its slope, and chosen to loiter at the bottom. Luckily for Adiran, he was already at the top, and spared the grueling climb. That was fine - most things in dreams didn’t make proper sense.
Like the fact that Riin was already there, waiting for him.
“You made it.” The Kyriin didn’t turn. He simply stood, hands clasped loosely behind his back, shoulders relaxed. The way he always stood when he was thinking. “I wasn’t sure you’d come.”
Always the same conversation. Every night.