Excerpt of Intergalactic Witness Protection
Nicholas’s
dreams start first, since he’s usually the first to fall asleep.
He’ll sleep during a pirate invasion if he wants to. Normally, I
don’t tap into my crew’s dreams except a routine monitor, but
after the day we have, I feel it’s best to risk it.
A
girl is laughing in the distance, her hair flowing free, and she’s
wearing a girlish dress even though she’s a woman now.
Ah,
his recurring dream. I should have anticipated it. It seems to come
upon him every time he gets close or connected relation-ally in any
way with a new woman. A woman who isn’t the recurring actress in
this dream.
The
woman looks back at Nicholas and smiles. Then she goes off running in
the grassy pasture before leaving Nicholas’s view.
Laughing,
Nicholas follow after her. But his laughter turns to worry as he
keeps running across the pasture, and not seeing her. As the grass
starts to wilt, and the flowers start to die.
And
then the pasture is gone, ended by an abrupt cliff that leads to a
deep, dark void.
Terror
grips Nicholas. Fear. Loss.
Anger.
He
wakes up in a cold sweat, breaking my connection with his dream.
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