Hea

x's mother

tears welled up in his ey

ivering woman coiled up in the corner

rds her as his six-year-old self held

late that it wasn't his mother. The woman rais

d a beat and his le

but she clutched his wrist and pulled him toward her. Inste

ost his grip on piggy as fell deeper into the dark hole. Just when he felt there was never goin

t in him. When these dreams first started, he'd kept st

elf be consume

resigned finality. He saw a woman descending into the ocean af

pe bubble in him as he stretched his hand to meet hers but that hope was soon snuffed out of him when he

dro

lway

oomed to

. His chest heaved as he frantically nursed his neck

still hadn't gotten used to

fore the person on the oth

tsteps from the hallway. Hendrix pull

He said with a small s

dismayed face his face fell and h

king, "Those dreams again?" The older ma

the boy suffered

is palm as he ran his hand th

fine," He

ieved him when he'd say that but

what had led to th

t had happened that night, what he had seen. But he was just a boy who was terrified so he told his moth

wouldn't. He was sent to the psychiatrist every

e never t

when you let people i

him to a place where the psychiatrist was

ppened. He withdrew from everyone and built a strong wa

sume him. Preferring its concealing nature to that of light wh

the age of ten. He was only a child misgui

you, Hendrix?" A

t him. He could never know wha

ey left for their trip

him a word. It was funny cause

ex said di

and it kept ringing in his head. Hendrix had confirmed it to be mere

quite early and

iages to be sure things

use, but he paid no heed. Ignoring them was better than b

to the brim they all were. The farmers had all done great jobs, trading

s goi

he saw a silhouette of a man standing fa

felt he imagined it but he could hear clearly the man's hea

uriosity by going to check the spot out. On reachi

d that

ning things so he mind-linked Ger

lked briskly through the woods

s tracks Alex did and saw a thread trap just in fro

on arrival as he and about fi

inutes ago. Check the area. C

nstr

sed before shifting shapes