CAGED WOLF' inmate 0-7-7-4-1 (r18)
POV: Ricki
The dreams kept worsening, and the worst part was that they didn't feel like dreams at all. They felt like memories of a place he'd never been.
Every night now, the same forest waited the moment sleep pulled him under: pine needles sharp underfoot, cold earth pressing up between bare toes, that same slow, ancient heartbeat sitting somewhere beneath his own ribs, patient, waiting to be recognized. He woke each morning gasping, sheets soaked through, his pulse hammering against his throat like something trying to get out. Twice now he'd caught himself running his tongue over grit he could have sworn sat between his teeth - dirt he had no way of explaining, gone by the time he checke