it's been over a week since elena's world shattered. the next day is vi and luthir's wedding, the promise of something actually good on the horizon to look forward to.
but first, there's another long night to get through. sleep has come in spurts here and there during these long days spent so often secluded in her room, and it's often hard to know what time of day it even is, when she's woke up and when she's been dreaming.
and she has been dreaming.
at first, she can't remember them, beyond strange distant whispers, a feeling of being watched, an unsettling paranoia in her stomach, but it's easy enough to ascribe it to what happened.
this time, however, when she wakes, she knows better. this was an alien presence, distant and powerful and malevolent, and its focus had been bent on her, as if it could plumb her deepest secrets.
but looking around her room, she'd realize something seems... off. the colors are all wrong - gray and purple, and the furniture looks old, the room sporting cobwebs here and there, and dust on the mirror across the way.
a mirror in which... a reflection is moving that is not hers. ]
the night before vi's wedding
it's been over a week since elena's world shattered. the next day is vi and luthir's wedding, the promise of something actually good on the horizon to look forward to.
but first, there's another long night to get through. sleep has come in spurts here and there during these long days spent so often secluded in her room, and it's often hard to know what time of day it even is, when she's woke up and when she's been dreaming.
and she has been dreaming.
at first, she can't remember them, beyond strange distant whispers, a feeling of being watched, an unsettling paranoia in her stomach, but it's easy enough to ascribe it to what happened.
this time, however, when she wakes, she knows better. this was an alien presence, distant and powerful and malevolent, and its focus had been bent on her, as if it could plumb her deepest secrets.
but looking around her room, she'd realize something seems... off. the colors are all wrong - gray and purple, and the furniture looks old, the room sporting cobwebs here and there, and dust on the mirror across the way.
a mirror in which... a reflection is moving that is not hers. ]