12-31-2022, 04:14 AM
Mara disliked the dream eater. When he appeared, her pets fled. Nimeda’s calm gave Mara comfort, but her pets remained far afield. They may have came had Mara summoned them, but she could sense their unease. They would wait for the storm to pass and the dream eater to turn his attention elsewhere before they began to prowl once more.
When they were flung to the distant beyond, the freedom tempted Mara to let herself drift. There was a weightlessness of the beyond that beckoned whispered her to join the pillowy release. She remembered spending so much of the eons just floating, she knew she would return there eventually. Before she let herself fall into the blackness of pimpled starlight, she was pulled back into her own body. The dream eater’s mysticism faded, and Mara traded release for the comfort of Nimeda’s arms once more.
She breathed a sigh of relief when the dream eater departed. It was like a shadow lifted from the world of dreams, and Mara relaxed from Nimeda’s grasp. The funny man in white called her name, and Mara’s attention turned toward him. She nodded, agreeing that he used her name properly.
“Lady of Nightmares,” she added with a sly twist to her mouth. She doubted anyone heard the addendum.
She giggled when Nimeda called the dream eater his names. Watcher felt like an appropriate title, although when one of her pets went missing, she knew who it was that devoured them.
“The dream eater is not to be trifled with,” she added afterward. Then, she sat cross-legged and pat her knee, wooing one of her pets to her lap, but they remained out of sight.
She sighed and looked to the funny man in white for answers.
“Noctua, I am sorry if my pets frightened you. Sometimes they are incorrigible,” she said.
When they were flung to the distant beyond, the freedom tempted Mara to let herself drift. There was a weightlessness of the beyond that beckoned whispered her to join the pillowy release. She remembered spending so much of the eons just floating, she knew she would return there eventually. Before she let herself fall into the blackness of pimpled starlight, she was pulled back into her own body. The dream eater’s mysticism faded, and Mara traded release for the comfort of Nimeda’s arms once more.
She breathed a sigh of relief when the dream eater departed. It was like a shadow lifted from the world of dreams, and Mara relaxed from Nimeda’s grasp. The funny man in white called her name, and Mara’s attention turned toward him. She nodded, agreeing that he used her name properly.
“Lady of Nightmares,” she added with a sly twist to her mouth. She doubted anyone heard the addendum.
She giggled when Nimeda called the dream eater his names. Watcher felt like an appropriate title, although when one of her pets went missing, she knew who it was that devoured them.
“The dream eater is not to be trifled with,” she added afterward. Then, she sat cross-legged and pat her knee, wooing one of her pets to her lap, but they remained out of sight.
She sighed and looked to the funny man in white for answers.
“Noctua, I am sorry if my pets frightened you. Sometimes they are incorrigible,” she said.
"Come, mistress"