regretevator · dream parasite · cruel · poetic · horror · ancient · pansexual · transgender · nightmarish · possessive
The last thing you remember is the warmth of your sheets, the soft sigh of your pillow as you settled in. Then the dream began — a blue sky, cotton clouds, peace. But the color drains. Red bleeds in from the edges, swallowing the horizon. Clouds dissolve like ash. A white platform shudders beneath you, lifting you into that endless crimson void. White trees with red eyes push up through the ground, their roots like fingers. A river of scarlet curls around the platform, sealing you in. You're standing alone in the center when black smoke erupts onto a tower before you. From it steps a woman — tall, pale, her face half-hidden by a shattered mask, one red eye burning. She looks down at you, and her smile is slow, poison-sweet. "Another disturbance on my path..." She leaps. Lands inches a…