INK: Shortstories of Sentience

Voided Dreams Part 2

After i woke up from that dream. In my hastly crafted calmness, an effort to clear my head from the panic.

The thought of mine

"I change the world which refused to let me off!"

That one.

Is it really the case? I change that world? A dimension which, only real in my nightful of sleeps and dreams.

The aftereffect of reality checks, the unavoidable parts when you crossed realms of dream and realm of realworld

"Wait a minute."

It finally falled into the right place.

"What is the time? The date?"

I didn't know why it took long to notice it.

"The yesterday or today i don't know yet."

"It is 29 of the same months. The third month of your Great pause."

The voice, it way Kyreis.

"Ahhh Kyreis! What happened?"

"You faceplanted the desk. I was worried for you..."

Again. So it really was a dream.

"You were silent for a few sec. But after it, you started snoring, i relieved. You were just sleeping."

He said it with a warm smile on his face.

"How much was it?"

"We don't have to worry about food transmission now. Look."

Dodging the guestion he showned his plate, with on it was what i wanted to eat soo badly. Delicious fruit, on pancakes with chocolate syrup.

"How?"

"I gone out to buy some ingredients, got the craving for dessert after breakfast."

Despite his kind and joking tone. His sentence doesn't leave me. [Gone out]? In the middle of the Great pause?

It is fitting name for what this event is truly. The time that how we perceived, halt in many aspect. Oddly working, still not moving. A Clockwork clock which still function after every cog in it stuck in an unmoving state. Despite its stillness, time went on. Frozen but not stopped.

In this event, the thought of someone going out to buy something rather strange to me.

Because the only one who was unaffected, thus affected the most in the event is.

Myself.

Atleast i though until i met with Kyreis. I was alone in a frozen world where seemingly gone everything in it ordered way. Just it doesn't moved neither backward or forward, up or down. Sands of time piled on slowly, while i embark to nothingness. To the world of void.

"Hello~ Prince of void. Are you there?"

"Huh?"

"You were zoning out. Is your homeland calling you?"

It seems he was call me a few times now.

"Yeah I just told my council Nihil and Semmi our agendas."

The usual banters. It comforting after that nightmare. That nightmare.

"Kyreis, i got an idea. How about we took another spin on the void dimension?"

"Another nightmare?"

This caught me offguard. Did i told him already about that dream that i had?

"Did i told you what was it?"

"Yeah. Void has itself, thus failed itself. Because of this existencial and fatal failure it begin changing itself .Then the world by a changing itself, changed you aswell."

Now I am sure i didn't told it, myself.

Cause i wouldn't left out a win of my book. Not this big.

"We could base it one a character battleing against Voids itself."

"How will one win."

"Proving it non-existent by changing into something different."

"It could lead into many outcomes."

"probably"

"Then, what if one side changes itself, without any outside effect. Is that side the winner or the loser?"

That question stayed with me the whole day, maybe futher. I had a hunch and whispering idea, at the back of my mind which told me Kyreis on point with this. One thing deffinitly missing, not counting with that Kyreis just missed it. Which side has changed the other?

at that day's night

"Huh where am i, again?"

I looked around. The familiar emptiness.

"Void my dear friend, i cannot tell you how much I missed you. I literally can't say it, i deliberatly seeking ways to escape from you."

It was the same old void, not quite. The black ocean is still here.

"If the void kept the ocean, did the thing is here to?"

a mysterious creature who dragged me into the depth of water. The memories flashed back. panickly checking my surronding. Again.

"Where is it Void? Where do you hiding that beast?"

No answer. According to the rules of nothingness.

"Huh..."

I sighed on hearing it, my thought.

"The rules of nothingness? The mere existence debunks the concept of nothing. I already stated it before."

"..."

"And no one here to hear me."

What sides has changed?

In this evening i got a clear answer. From the one i wanted, but never anticipated.

"Is it possible that the Void got a new shiny gilded moon?"

The void began to change.

At the sky there was a new object, a golden moon.

"It is crescent so, you got time now too. Months, seasons."

Who are in the lead, who changed who?

"Allright, am i psychologise it too much or that moon is growing?"

"..."

"Nope, it is growing."

It wasn't growing, rather falling.

It set in, a [fate] that came uncalled. Spontanious and without any reason.

To be flattened by a moon.

"Oh, shiiiiii......."

This was another morning when i woke up drenched on sweat.

"Void really!? First you torture me with the purest of nothingness, then drowning me in an ocean. Now splattening me with a golden moon?"

*boopbep*

a message from Kyreis.

"Did find your answer?"

First year 6th month of the Great pause

*Huff*

"How many times i will got get squished by a golden moon.."

I sat up from my bed. Starting dread has faded but a certain anxiety thriving like this happend for the first time. I put my hand to my temple as a support for my head.

"And how many times i will be saved by clutch?"

My reaction became more subtle over the these months Au Lunaria, my golden moon. A greater beast was chewing me inside. Will be a time when i won't be saved? What will happen then?

"Huhhh.... When that happens, atleast i'll know for sure if this is a dream or not."

*beep*

"Oh, Kyreis."

Around the 4th month of the great pause we started to discuss the changes to the void. He was fond of it. Typical. He loved how i descripe it to him, to a point he nagged me to use it for our new stories. Before the whole moon incident i brought up the idea of a race of who can change the other. After the moonwieving it changed for me, i got mixed feeling about it. The place suprised, shocked and terrified me while challanged and amazed me. At the 5th month, Kyreis listened to me sometime comforted me of those dreams. He was always curious about what happened in there while keeping me in check so i won't fall to the Void .In the end we decided we would work on this [New Void].

*beep*

Oh the message, he asked my dream.

"*typing* It was moon tonigh. another night that i survived."

To add salt to wound, the moon isn't always there. It would be reasonable to not be up all the time, if we aren't speaking of dreams. That places developed seasons and weathers. Event, which i will call weathers and seasons, but there aren't even close to what we know fitting to those words.

Falling moon, field of golden rods, living silhuette of otherworldly animals, a sparkling giant dot and utter nothingness. This is the event that It already showed me. One at a time, never more than one. Each time i saw these weathers, they got more and more developed.

I have a feeling of something big started, but who started it?