The River

Prologue

Dawn was upon the vast field in front of Logan. On the horizon under the shadow of great mountains laid a still shape. Logan walked toward the shape and soon enough reached what seemed like a dead tree. Rocks were all around the tree, Logan was enchanted by the tree and tried to pass through the rocks to get by the side of the tree.

He has never seen a tree in his life, except in the books of course, and now here it was, a tall tree with a thick body. Though it was dead and had no leaves on it, it still looked unbelievably beautiful.

As Logan was walking through the big rocks toward the enchanting tree, he realized the rocks started to move, for a moment he stayed still, nothing happened, so he continued to walk. This time rocks shook hard under his feet and made him fall.

Logan stood up as fast as he could, to his surprise he saw a big human shape made out of rocks standing between him and the tree. It was almost twice taller than Logan. He looked back and decided to run back to his village, but the tree started to shake. It was as if the tree needed his help.

The rock-man started walking toward the tree after seeing that Logan is not approaching it anymore.

Logan hesitated but finally started to run toward the tree, he passed the rock-man fast and reached the tree, the rock-man was closing in on them.

He was confused and didn’t know what to do, the rock-man reached them, he grabbed some branches of the tree in his hand and started to pull, the tree started to scream from the pain. Logan attacked the rock-man and succeeded to push him away for a moment. This time the rock-man chased Logan. He ran away until there was enough space between them to let him think. There was nothing to help him escape or win the fight. So he did the first idiotic idea that came to his mind.

Logan grabbed some rocks and threw toward the rock-man. All the rocks absorbed in its body and did not stop it. The rock-man reached Logan and grabbed him by the waist. Pain ran through his body as he was being pulled up in the air by the rock-man.

Logan opened his eyes breathing hard and fast, his body was drowned in sweat. It took him a moment to realize where he was. It was early in the morning but still, the darkness of the night was ruling over the village.

Logan stood up and went to the window, everything was in peace. The sun was coming out and the vast field behind the village was getting rid of the heavy shadow of the mountains.

From the time Logan was a little child he would see dreams and most of the time his dreams would come true. He had a fortune-telling power with his dreams. But it didn’t take that long for him to lose his ability and start seeing weird nightmares.

It has been some years that he would see nightmares like this, and what would make him scared was that a part of him still thought these nightmares could come true one day.

Logan went back and sat on a chair in his room, he was feeling better now, not every night he would see a nightmare like this. Some nights he had a dream about big tall mountain-like houses in enormous cities, like the cities from ancient times that his parents had told him about when he was a child.

Of course, Logan’s main problem was not the dreams he had when he was asleep, the main problem was the thing that only he could see during the day time, the river.