Hardwired

[Fairchild]

Chapter 07: Midnight

Blood... hand... knife....... knife, knife, I need the knife... all the people... Lunara! No... no... no!

She woke up rapidly. The image of Lunara's final expression was still etched in her memory from the dream. It was one thing she could not forget, through all these years. Her only fear.

"What happened?" The Professor seemed to have noticed her waking up. They installed a few cameras inside the Palantir so that he would not only have to rely on her own eyes.

She stayed quiet for a while. "Can you block nightmares with Vergil?" She felt like she already knew the answer.

"I doubt that. Not with our current understanding, anyway. Dreams are chaotic, they are produced by so many different parts of your brain that blocking them out individually would probably do a lot more harm than good." She seemed visibly unhappy with his answer. "Do you want to tell me what you saw?"

She shook her head. They held an unspoken agreement, not to talk about anything that happened before Wisp. He knew she came from Crete, but didn't know anything about her childhood, the Black Sun and Lunara. She knew he had his background in the Sirius Coalition, but never asked about what he worked on there.