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struggling a bit, trying to protect me. I kicked one about to stab Bo in the chin and the other one tried to come at me. I grabbed the knife from the ground and stabbed them in the chest, causing them to groan out in pain. Bo managed to throw the last one to the ground. We ran for our lives before they could get back up, the knife still in hand.

"Damn, Lyrosa! Badass much?" Bo managed to spit out. I laughed and felt good about myself. I actually felt alive!

We ran into a forest. I believe it was the same one as last time but I can't fully remember. We stopped halfway through it and we climbed up a tall tree near us. We climbed about four branches.

I felt like my body was going to shut down because I pushed its limit of running. Bo seemed to be too. We caught our breath once again.

"Do you think we lost them?" Bo asked.

"I think so-"

I felt myself falling off the tree. Then, everything went black.

 

Chapter Sixteen: Echoes of a Shadow

 

I open my eyes like it seems like I've been doing all this time. My vision was blurry and I was in an unclear state within my surroundings. Once my eyes adjust, I was in an empty room. The walls were gray, like brick, and the floor was white, and that was it. It was very enclosed too like I was in rehab. I couldn't tell where I was or where anyone else was. I stood up and walked around, seeing if there was anything secret of some sort in this weird room. I touched all over the walls and floor, becoming desperate that I find an escape or someone else here.

The more I touched the walls, the weirder it felt. It felt unnatural, like liquid almost. I felt as if I could stick my hand through the wall.

I then asked myself:

Is this a lucid dream?

Testing it, I leaned my hand against the wall really hard. It felt like jelly, which made me fall through. I looked at the outside of this building that I was in. The outside looked like the colors of the stairs in my basement back home. I saw the light sitting on top of the building which had no roof. I look behind me, it was nothing but dark blue and green color, it was also below me. There were objects floating, they looked like white lines but with letters written on them. I stand up, seeing that I'm not even falling. I'm sure I'm dreaming.

Walking toward the thick white line, I was able to touch it. It felt like paper. The letters read from up to down. I managed to read:

Togabor.

It was in Crushah, it meant 'burn.' How strange. I never had a lucid dream before, so I was trying to imagine different words that were more pleasant. I saw a few lines close to me change. I check what they said:

Paawou.

Vic a to.

Liiu ni tierro a pato.

Perish. Just die. Give me your life.

I was starting to get creeped out. Was my mind just to messed up to change? Is this lucid dream even working? I read words similar to what I read earlier. Something isn't right. What was it?

I look behind me to see something in the distance. I couldn't make out what it was, but it looked silver and blue. I started walking towards it. The closer I got, the more it started to look like something I knew. Closer and closer I went. It started to look more like a person in armor. Running is what I have come too, just like I always had been.

I was able to make out the figure, and it was indeed a person. It looked like the person was wearing armor from Wrenwood. He had brown hair.

Armor from Wrenwood.

Brown hair.

Bo?

The figure was floating in the position of someone drowning. I held him up, and it was Bo, but with the eyes of the Delzen Hollow magic. They were half open. He wasn't moving. I wasn't sure whether to be worried or not, as this is a dream. The white lines suddenly became black, the letters became unreadable as it faded away in the black. My heart started to pound. I looked left, right, and down to see if there was anyone else or anything else. There was not until I looked up.

A shadow-like figure was appearing above me, holding a picture frame. The figure had a feminine body and long, brown hair in a long black robe. I couldn't see its face. From what I could make out from the picture, it was me. The same picture as the Wanted poster I saw recently. Unable to make out the figures face, the picture frame was dropped and instead of it landing on the invisible ground, it fell into the endless void of this place.

The shadow looked at me, and I could see its face. It looked like a mix of so many people that I once knew. Mother, Evelyn, some female citizens that I have seen in Iprellis. It looked like all those people, but it had small cracks all over its face. It looked like an overall nightmare. I stared back at the shadow girl, wanting to look away. I didn't, though. I blinked a few times and it was in front of me, smiling at me. The smile was crooked and big. It was super unnatural.

I look beside me and Bo was gone. I looked back at the mysterious lady.

"Lyrosa." She said. Her smile became bigger and she held her hand out to me. Those words of her started to echo infinitely. I decided to do what I do best, which was to run.

Swatting her hand away, it went through her like a ghost as I started to run away. I felt as if I was running faster than I did before. I started to sweat for some reason and everything turned numb. Something made me come to a stop for no reason. I felt a tight grip on my leg.

I went into the void.

The blackness made me feel irrationally sad and worried. I couldn't see anything but the lady's face. She was coming toward me. I tried to run, but she was faster. She caught my arm and the echo started again:

"Lyrosa."

I tried to speak, but I couldn't. I think it was just one of those things in a dream.

Dream!

I attempted to imagine this figure going away but I couldn't. I tried to just imagine it disappearing forever. I then imagined myself punching it in the face out of anger and I felt her grip on me loosen. She acted like I really punched her. Is this how to lucid dream like this? Is this something important that only I could destroy?

"Don't use your mind, Lyrosa, you'll die." The figure whispered, only hearing my name echo. Not listening to the demon shadow, I imagined myself punching and kicking her in self-defense mode like I learned when I was little. I heard her groaning and acting in pain.

She suddenly ran up to me and put her hand over my forehead. I suddenly couldn't think.

I couldn't touch her because she was like a ghost. I felt her long nail touch my heart, I suddenly felt like my body was shutting down. I felt like I would die in real life if I were to die in this strange dream too. Then, her touch stopped and I felt like I could breathe again. I look to my right to see Bo there. I felt happy. He helped me up and because he couldn't talk, he pointed at his brain then proceeded to do signals as if he was using a sword to fight. I think I knew what he was talking about.

Without question, I ran from everyone and imagined I was fighting her with a long, silver sword the Iprellis guards would use, the first weapon in my head.

I could hear the silence cease and the echoes of my name continue with the extra pain noises in the background. Finally, I imagined myself hitting her in the heart; and for a split second, I swear I saw a light inside of her, the same light of the basement.

"Lyrosa!"

I was in a hospital bed and everything felt normal. I had awoken. I look up to see Bo, Tobi, and a doctor.

"Miss Lyrosa, we found you after fighting off the black suited people, and you had head damage. You're in the Delzen Hollow hospital. Luckily, your damage didn't get to your brain. But while you were asleep, you kept tossing and turning as if you were being tortured on the inside." Tobi said, smiling at me with a hint of worry.

"Oh, really? I think it was because of..."

I heard the echoes replay in my head.

"Just a strange lucid dream I had that I never had before. It was pretty scary too. Let's just say I had to fight off a shadowy demon."

Everyone looked at each other in a strange manner and back at me.

"Miss Lyrosa, please refrain from speaking any longer. We need to run more tests." The doctor said. He put a rag on my head and back to sleep I went.

 

Chapter Seventeen: Infirmary

 

I spent the whole day in the hospital. The doctor was feeding me a lot and giving me a lot of water to drink. He also did many brain scans and tests, and all of them came back with no problems. He acted like me having a lucid dream regarding my state of mind is really bad. I'm not sure whether he's overreacting or it's actually a bad signal. From time to time, I could hear the echoes of my name.

After a day of all the scans and questions, I was sent back to the luxury apartments like originally planned. I was taken in a chariot by a guard on an alternate route, a more "secret" way, he says. I don't believe it, but at least I could get home at least safely. Tobi and Bo had left the hospital earlier because of the questions I was asked. I was asked about the description of the general dream. I didn't answer all of it truthfully because I didn't trust most people and I feel like it is something to be kept to oneself.

I knocked on the door to the apartment Bo was in, impatient. I was ready to take a bath and feel okay for a