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Chapter 6: "Years of love have been forgoten in the hatred of a minute." -Edgar Allan Poe

When we got back as exhausted as I was, I didn't want to sleep just this one night because I hated the nightmares and knew that the day I just had would cause a lot of them.  So I just sat on my bed with my tarot cards trying to memorize the meaning of each card as well as the power that went with them.  As I was going through I noticed that all the cards that turned gray were back to normal and the ones I threw were all back in my deck.  

Just then I heard a bang. I ran out to see what was going on. Dagon was up standing on his bed, and he had his scythe in his hand pointed towards the corner of the room. He once again looked really tired so he must not have been sleeping either, which is not good cause this is the second day in a row that he hasn’t slept.

“KIT THERE'S A SPIDER!!” Dagon yelled.

“Oh is Dagon the dragon afraid of spiders?” I teased.

“Oh shut up, just kill it please!” Dagon said I looked at the spider. It was so small and tiny, I couldn't believe that Dagon was scared of it. I grabbed my shoe and squashed it.  I'm not a big fan of killing bugs, but if they are inside they are not meant to be there, especially if they are tormenting one of my friends.  

“Thank you Kit,” Dagon seemed a lot calmer.

“No problem, but, uh Dagon why are you up?  It's like the middle of the night.”

“Oh um I-”

“Dagon, it’s okay, what's wrong?  You can tell me anything,”

He took a deep breath.  “Alright, so my mom she was kinda like not the best mom, and, well for years even after she died I would have nightmares, and it got to a point where I would rarely sleep in fear of them.  When I did sleep it wouldn’t be for long, maybe an hour or two max and it would be by accident.”

“Dagon I-”

“I don’t want sympathy because my mom died it's better this way”

“I understand the nightmares Dagon, but you have to get a full night of sleep sometimes at least every other day. Missing sleep sometimes is okay but you can’t do that on a constant basis!”

“But I can’t not with the nightmares!”

“Dagon she can’t hurt you now. Remember that, if it helps I’ll stay with you until you wake up.”

Dagon thought for a moment then nodded and said “okay we can try just uh not tonight since it’s already like 4 am it won’t be worth it,”

“Okay tomorrow then!”

“Yeah! But for now wanna play a game?  I have a deck of cards.” So for the rest of the night me and Dagon played spit and bullshit together.