Dream Me

  First time,they met in a dream.
  The Dreamworld.A whimsical map that has no true north.A land with its own rules and laws,treacherous terrains and dangerous inhabitants.Imaginaerum.
  She appeared like a phantasm,a white silhouette glowing faintly.But at a closer look,you could see that it was simply a pale girl dressed in a paler attire,illuminated by the shower of stars falling from the sky.Strange world it was there.All purples and blues and pinks.The sun was setting,an obvious detail pointed by the pinkish horizon and the fluffy purple clouds swarming on the dark blue sky.The surreal light was seeping through the evergreens and bathing an old bridge with green weeds crawling up its bricks.In the air,a thick,sugary fragrance lingered;it resembled cotton candy,but how strange for a forest to smell like that.A gust of wind ruffled the leaves of a nearby bush and the sweetness in the air mixed with something slightly bitter,maybe wormwood?The girl moved and the shuffle of her dress startled him.She was pacing slowly,barefoot and looking at the sky,then at him,then at the sky again;whispering something only she could hear,then crouching on the grass and picking up a wild flower so small,he could barely see it.He wasn't surprised when she offered him the fragile plant,a periwinkle;somehow,he expected that to happen.She had viridian eyes that darkened in the pink light and turned shimmering green while watching the shooting stars.She told him stories about talking trees and clear skies that reflected another world,about celestial beings that kidnapped stars from our universe to make theirs bright,about otherwordly music and everything odd.And he sat there,in the grass,listening for hours,with eyes wide open following her every gesture,his mind unchained and recreating everything he heard.
  Lying on her back and looking up in the inky sky with sparkling eyes,her silvery hair splayed around her head like a halo and white skin giving off a dim glow,she resembled one of the fabulous creatures she spoke about,otherwordly and mesmerizing.Reaching out a tiny hand,she caught a drop of cloudless rain in her palm and allowed it to slide down her arm until it vanished,leaving only a trail of water behind from which thin,rainbow coloured strings jutted out and covered her skin.And they glowed and glowed and glowed until he was blinded by the light and closed his eyes.Like that,he was in his room,the dawning sun shining through the window and hitting the kaleidoscope forgotten on his desk.

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