Nightmares Reimagined

[Thalia]

“We all need a break sometimes. It is a lonely life otherwise.” She half-smiled but did not press; the offer of her help would always be there. She agreed that everything must eat, balance being what it was, and Mara’s pets were not evil anyway, they simply were. As their mistress came to sit close, Nimeda relaxed, chin still propped on her knees. She was thinking about absence, nor presence, and only half listening to the conversation. Though the last bit caught her attention. The cute little horrors did not even like her, but the idea of one being wrenched into the Other world did not sit easy with Nimeda. She could not say why except the boy who called himself Nox made it sound like an awful place.