The Prince of the Moon

Let me get to her, I need to wake her up.

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"Many students comment that if you dream of visiting the Moon, it is very likely that you will find a palace and a prince who is waiting for you."

"What are you saying? Now everyone dreams of the Moon to affirm something like that?" I replied in a mocking tone to my classmate as we returned home. However... it could happen, I mean, I cause nightmares, it would not be impossible for someone else to have a similar ability.

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Two years ago, as usual, Yoona got up in the middle of the night. Sleepless and a little thirsty, she decided to go for a glass of water. And although her room looked the same, when she walked through the door, she noticed that the floor squeaked with every step she took, which was strange because her house was not made of wood; She soon realized that it was darker than usual and the wind could be heard blowing through the walls. Scared, she looked through the dim light, and on the left end were two huge windows covered by gnawed curtains that were raised with the gusts of wind, and on the right end a narrow corridor surrounded by doors on both sides.

She was definitely not at home. She turned around but the door to her room had disappeared. Fear took over her, so she began to run down the corridor in search of a way out, but there seemed to be no end and the dim light turned into darkness. Yoona stopped, thinking that it would be best to go back and go out through the windows to get help. However, she heard footsteps approaching and without hesitation, although her legs were shaking, she entered one of the rooms to hide.

Yoona was trying to calm her breathing so she could hear if there was someone behind the door, but instead what she looked paralyzed her. In the middle of the room there was a bed where a person was sleeping and just sitting on the floor, leaning on the bed, there was a human-shaped shadow.

"Take a good look at who's on the bed."

The voice, which sounded somewhat distorted, came from that shadow. Yoona thought that something worse would happen if she did not obey and, while crying, she found out that was her classmate who was on the bed.

"Wouldn't you like to leave her alone like she does with you? In a dark forest where everything is silent? Get close to her heart and begin to imagine, nothing will happen to you, but she will believe that the illusion is real until she wakes up."

Yoona hated her, somehow she always isolated her from others, so more than fear, she was motivated by being able to make her feel miserable.

"You can come whenever you want, sleep is the key."

Yoona was comforted by that ability; Using nightmares to punish people gave her a certain reassurance, perhaps because it was some kind of purpose, or perhaps for some other reason that she still couldn't understand.

Thus, she began to visit the house daily, even more than once a day. Most of the time she didn't know who was the person sleeping in the bed, but that wasn't an impediment to examining their heart and finding some reason why they had to pay for the pain that at some point they generated.

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Although she never encountered the shadow of the first day again, being able to go to that house just by sleeping and causing nightmares in those who slept had never failed.

The day she heard about the prince of the Moon was no different, in fact she had forgotten that story until days later, when she entered the house and the light that came from outside was more intense, she wondered why that difference occurred after so long and looked out the windows. Outside were several pillars covered with chains of branches and flowers located around what looked like a throne. However, what caught her attention the most was that when she looked up at the sky she could see the Earth in the distance; She immediately remembered the story.