“It would have to have been quite some time,” Kyoko continued, glancing at him and then turned away again, “I’ve dreamed about Shinbe more than once.”
Toya almost fell out of the tree. “More than once? You’ve been dreaming about Shinbe… like that?” he made a face of disgust, remembering what he’d saw in the clearing by the shrine.
Kyoko giggled at his reaction. She hated to admit it, but Toya was really cute when he made that face. “The dreams have never gone as far as that one did. That’s what’s confusing me. That dream was so real,” Kyoko sighed again and looked down at the forest floor. ‘Geez, I didn’t know I climbed this high. How am I going to get down?’
“Real,” Toya whispered. “Shinbe thinks it was real. And he thinks he loves you.” The words left him, as if he were in a trance. H
