Sierra XVII

[Daerune]

"The dreams were all the same. They all lead from crashing from snow to a cavern, a deep cold takes over the limbs numbing the hands... until the frosts no longer nibs at the fingers... the arm.. then the chest. deaths embrace sweeps over and then, light but its always of waking. the first nights were the worst, they always are and then you adjust to it. Sometimes it changes, I see peoples faces, they are normal until they change to that of agony, then they decay... but there is one that remains unchanged a woman's face.. at least it has the shape the shape of a woman's face.. but the face isn't a face its a shape of a face, but then it splits duplicating changing to two faces.. three, four... five six.. six faceless faces.. the shapes two male no three, three male three female all there all faces, faces of body then the dark shapes they are shapes behind the faces. All this has been going in my head, but there there is more, reality shifts it turns it twists and clashes, I see things that's not there... I hear things that I don't hear, I see what I don't see, I cant see.. I walk.. I am walking, I am walking down the halls... my hand glides along it... feeling the texture of the wall as the skin passes over it... but I cant hold on.. it shifts and then I am here."

His hand shifted to the computer, the music sounded and it drowned out his mind his thoughts and consumed his freedom of thinking. his mouth moved along with it as he sang along and his mind returned to as it was, his hands shook, they slid from the controls and onto the ships armchair.

"Sierra... Your cleared for launch."

"Merci..... Monsieur."

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