by Avareth » Sun May 08, 2011 5:05 am
Anala sat up in bed, breathing hard.Run, Anala, run, they'll find you if you don't, they seek your dreamings done. The nightmares haunted her on nights like last night. She'd snuck out to the river pools beyond her home. The frogs sweet thoughts lulled her into a peace she could never explain. But there was this constant pull for her. Pulling her deeper into the forest, over river bends, beneath cobble-stone bridges. Every time she gave the pull a chance, let it pull her to its source, she'd wind up at the coast. She wasn't too near the coast, not at all. It took about 5 hours the first time, to let this force sweep her through the forest, just to keep pulling her towards the water. And that was when she'd decided to ignore it. Because what on earth could the vast ocean have to do with her? Her nightmares were awful. Not only because they were so vivid, life-like...but her sub conscious knew her so well, and it seemed out to get her. It used her greatest fears in her dreams. She had done her best to soundproof her room, so her mother wouldn't wake to Anala's fearful thoughts.. Her 2 year old sister Eliza was harder to contain, though. She pried open Anala's door in the night with iron hands. After stretching and wiping a sheen of sweat from her face, she quietly slipped out of her room. Her mother's sweet sleeping songs filled the hall. Warm as a sun, between two woolen sheets, my nose begins to run, I hear the goat that bleats... Anala heard it, too. She sighed. Their neighbor's goat never shut up. And it's thoughts were all about food. Here comes the bald goat, the one with no such fur, has she any hay bales, any oats with her? Anala dumped a handful of hay into its trough. Eat eat, what a treat, the bald one brought me food to eat! As Anala went back inside, she remembered that she hadn't heard Eliza this morning. She found her at the table with a bowl of oatmeal. Here sister comes, has she any sugar? Cereals need sugar, and sister needs a hairbrush. Eliza's small inquisitive grin made her smile. She spooned sugar onto her oatmeal, and strolled outside, listening to the rain against the water, and the thoughts of the fish and frogs.