In a homestead, Adyna was dying and groaning. She was in pain and bleeding, screaming out for Athan to come home.
Her baby was already dead inside her.
The prince wasn't there. He was not even outside.
I thought of a possibility. A chance. But I was expecting the downside of doing it. To be trapped in a human body. To be one of them by possessing a tiny dead heart other than being just a part of it.
To be human, I've stolen a dead human body. To circulate blood from the first heartbeat. To unintentionally save them both from death.
Adyna gave birth to a healthy baby.
A daughter.
I became her.
Her conscious. Her emotions.
A spirit that replaced her nameless soul. Not just a part of her.
I first felt the intensity of pain and the feeling of crying as I was transferred to Adyna's arms. Then Athan rushed through the door and embraced the both us.
I've felt how their warm hands first held my tiny hands. And there was this joy screaming in my heart when my father looked me right in the eyes.
Then there was a brief silence as the sunlight reflected on her. Her dazzling translucent soul, hovering next to us. Smiling. Then she waved right to me before she left for her soul journey.
She was the soul of me.
As soon as I closed my eyes to sleep, I had my first dream as a girl. I was in a downland roaming alone, until a demon under his hood appeared that darkened everything except his red eyes that I didn't dare to look into.
He hovered around me, and I couldn't breathe. Then he breathed a gusting word out to my face that I fell into a void with screeches.
As I was falling, someone grabbed my hand, and I woke up in another hazy day. Another dream that I frantically searched for a dream dimension barrier made of clouds, but it didn't dispersed when I landed my hand on it. Then I tried pushing myself through it, which only woke me up next to Adyna who was soundly asleep.
Dreams.
For the past four years, I have dreamed every dream in every sleep that's mostly stored in my memory. I can even remember every detail vividly that nobody knows about.
I started using these dreams for something humans can't normally do without magic.
Through dreams, I was redreaming past dreams I had, and used them to travel back to the past, waking me up on the same day I had initially dreamed of them.
Then a dream played one night. A public execution in a courtyard, where I was just watching Adyna being sentenced to death in front of a crowd.
I couldn't do anything as I was being held back. I could only cry out.
Even if it was that blurry, I could see her face facing me. Smiling and saying it was just fine. I could see her tears falling, but she didn't even resist. She just said it was fine as she was about to be burned alive.
Athan was in there, but we couldn't do anything to stop it.
When I woke up, my eyes were weeping. And still gasping and sobbing from that dream. I couldn't describe the feeling I felt when I realized and saw my mother beside me, soundly asleep.
Seeing her breathing, all I thought was to hug her, so I did.
It felt so real, more than just a dream, that I couldn't help gazing at my parents as much as I could, whenever, every day. I just watched them. Their faces. Their expressions. Their reactions. All things about them. And even the way they love me.
When we were happily having the last dinner together, I never wished for a long life until human mortality hit me.
The next night, I heard my mom crying in their room. The door was ajar, so I peeped in. She's terribly ill, with my father on her side, which had my eyes shed tears just inside.
Day after day, they always leave home as soon as the sun sets in the west. The sunrises were even earlier to cross the door. I haven't even seen them eating food crops I harvested myself anymore. I even learned to sleep alone with a lizard on the wall, as it always does for who knows how many years.
Locked in their room, I once heard them arguing about something I couldn't understand. I was even about to ask them a few times about things they never told me, but I couldn't. I just watched them.
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