LyraMy sleep is restless. It is filled with the red glow of fire. I dream of my mother, her hand around mine as she pulls me through town. Flames roar all around me, consuming buildings and businesses, uncaring of the homes or the people within them. I dream of her death—of the fire that rained upon her from above, like a divine retribution against her very existence. I dream of her screams, of her flesh bubbling and boiling before falling off her bones. This dream reveals more to me now, however. The other shouting around me, the fire that streams from above in relentless arches, claiming the townspeople below just as they claimed mother.A disater I had forgotten. But here it is, reeling behind my eyes like a bad movie, reminding me even as I sleep that her death was bizarre. Random and unnatural.My eyes snap open, hair sticking to my damp face as my chest heaves with deep breaths. I hate that dream's appearance, but it often comes once a month. Only this time, it revealed so much
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