messiahed: (❛ like a little girl ❜)
нope ѕυммerѕ ([personal profile] messiahed) wrote in [community profile] onepassingnight2011-03-08 12:29 am

first ☠ war

Sleep never came easy to the battle-hardened soldier. Hope had been spared the sin of murder time and time again, but she had caused enough deaths. Killed several. Yet it wasn't what she'd done that haunted her nightmares, but what she had yet to do.

Dreams were always chaos for Hope. Anyone who could see the girl might see her world shifting every second. One minute she's in a dystopia. There's nothing for miles around but flat earth. No cities, not even a trace of life, and she's running. She can't stop running. She looks half mad with fright but she never stops going. Suddenly the world is gone from under her and the water is caving in all around her. She kicks her legs and struggles against the current but she knows this is it. She's going to drown.

When she finally submerges the world's changed again. There's a peaceful looking land with small square homes. It's an agricultural community. The water's all gone and Hope now stands in the middle of a battlefield. Cockroache-like humans overtake the little town of New Liberty and people run screaming through the town. She watches as they die again and again and she can't stop it. One of the roaches turns on her. She screams into the night, the name 'Nathan' on her lips, before her little dream goes black.

At long last she opens her eyes, still in the dream but finally fixed in place. She's sitting upright as her eyes open to a world fuzzy and beyond her focus. As she blinks the darkness away she finds herself in Utopia.

But Utopia is far from perfect. Beyond the waters Hope watches quietly as people scream under the massacre of the sentinels. San Francisco falling to the sentinels might as Hope watches from the ledges of Utopia.

This is all that she dreams, and her dreams never stop.

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