Take A Slice

Dreamer

"I was nothing but understanding towards you, Knight."

...

"Come with me." Dragon's Tail started to become stubborn. Rolling around, hissing out small fires from his mouth, flapping his wings, just a overall tantrum over putting on his harness. "You have too if you wanna go out with me." Dragon's Tail couldn't be reasoned with. The tantrum didn't even stop of a second. I don't have time for this, I just took my painkillers and I didn't want them to wear off when I'm walking. It time for the big guns.

"If you put on your harness you get a treat." He ran where the treat where and came back with the bag of treats. It's just beef jerky cut into pieces since there is still no such thing as treats for dismembered pieces of dragons. I started to put on harness without any stress or struggle. Then a gave him a treat for behaving well.

I went to the kitchen to put the treats away. There was a shot glass filled with something and painkillers in the packet. It looked like a many had been taken since half of the bottle was gone. I swear I only took one and I didn't remember pouring a shot. What a mess. I put the bag of treats on the counter and went back to Dragon's Tail.

Then I put the leash on the harness and left, making sure to lock the door behind me. Just a small walk around the kingdom. Nothing too serious. Just to take a break from everything. Maybe get groceries. I start to walk when I hear dragging behind me.

"Float. Fly. Don't drag yourself on the floor. It's dirty and it will hurt." He still can't he reasoned with. He can't even understand me, why do I try. I give up and just pick him up from the ground. At least it is better than chasing him down.

I walk down the block looking at all of the pop-up stores that usually close within a month, the hole on the sidewalk. Where was I walking to anyways?

"Hi!" I swear that I didn't see anyone behind me.

"Um hello?" It's someone I don't recognize. She had pink hair and was wearing a light pink dress. She wore two heart shape accessories on her hair. But when I looked at her face it looked like everyone else. No identifying features. None at all.

"Hi, did you know that your business is showing?" Crap the marks. I had forgotten about them. "Yeah I thought you didn't. But hope that your happy with yourself." The person started to melt away into a mushy mess. I walked away, confused.

"What's happening today?" I felt a dripping from somewhere. I looked over at Dragon's Tail. He was melting too. "Oh. Stop doing that." He didn't stop. He just melted into a puddle of goopy mess. I looked around no one else was looking at what was happening.

"Sir are you ok?" I looked at the person, I couldn't tell the gender as they had the same face as everyone else. "Your nose, it's bleeding." They pointed at my nose.

"Yeah I'm fine." I touched my nose then looked at my fingers. It was covered in blood.

"You need help."

"What?"

"You need some help. Let me give it to you." They started to grab my hips. I started to panic. "You need help don't you, let me help." They started to sound like someone else.

"Pitaya?" I feel so tired, I feel like a can't move anymore. I need help from someone else, anyone but them. "Stop, stop, STOP!" They didn't stop. I looked around and saw the we weren't even on the streets. We were at a bedroom. Their bedroom. Pitaya stopped talking, but I could feel their hands on my throat. "LET ME GO, TAKE IT OFF!" I didn't. Every breath I took felt like inhaling water. I started to cough and choke, I couldn't breath. Hot tears rolled down my cheeks, not that anyone cared.

"WAKE UP!"

I jolted wake. I was still in the living room watching TV, but it wasn't the news anymore. Dragon's Tail was happily sleeping next to me. And Madeleine was shaking me pretty aggressively.

"I'm awake, I'm awake." I took a breath. No pain. Nothing, just air. "What happened?"

"I heard you breathing heavily, I thought you were hyperventilating." Yeah, no. I just couldn't breath. Someone was choking me to death.

"No, I'm fine. Just a nightmare." I'm still shaken.

"Well if you say so." Then Madeleine left to the kitchen. I guess he is cooking. I need some water, I feel like shit.