you only had to fool me once

A Fear

Wren

Sonder

The concept that every stranger is living a life as complex as your own

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Wren was sitting in their office when there was a knock on the door, a silent knock but a knock nonetheless.

Wren got out of their seat and strided over to the door that was currently locked.

When they opened the door there was not a human nor animal in sight of that hallway, how strange.

There were small red dots on the walls and ground but if you looked closer you could tell that this was blood, so like any normal person would they follow it.

That was Their first mistake,

They followed the trail into the main room. There was no one, which could be explainable but the air felt different and the trail led outside the door, so Wren kept following.

They went outside and the first thing they could see really was the sky, it was painted red with blood, what had happened?

"No, no, no, no" they said under their breath and shaking their head because they knew what day it was, they knew what was supposed to happen today, yet they called it off, they told them not to set the bombs and frick they still did.

Wren picked up the pace and started running to town center, running for her friends because the bombs had the wrong powder in them they where laced with void powder, that could kill the whole city.

The sky and ash got darker and thicker the closer to town center they got and well, the feeling of dread was a thousand times worse when it was their friends on the line.

They were about to round the corner when they tripped over something, they looked behind them to find a charred body, with blood pooling around it, Wren bit their tongue when they recognized it as one of the members, Wolf.

That was His First mistake

They got up running around the corner to see the worst sight they have ever seen, blood covered the rubble of the buildings and they didn't want to know how many bodies lined the street, some friends, some more so, others complete strangers that met the same fate as the next.

They looked to the center of town to see the coward and his little manhunt trio.

"Dream!" they yelled, "What did you do?" Wren's whole body was shaking and it didn't help that there were two figures behind Dream, both probably under Dream's control.

That was Their Second mistake

"What does it look like?" Dream cackled, gesturing his arms around in a triumphant manner "I'm winning!" there was a dangerous glint in Flames and 404s eyes.

"You know when I heard about your little plan I used it against you, I lured out your friends and killed them one-by-one." Dream said, taking off his mask.

That was His Second mistake

Dream yanked on an invisible string and pulled one of the figures out from behind him, Drista, Wren took a step back, staring into the eyes of their best friend, Drista had ender eyes, her eyes were now poisoned a neon green.

404 and Flame were holding Drista and Dream had a knife in his hand.

That was His Third mistake

Dream looked at me to Drista and back again, "Cat got your tongue?" He said before slicing the blade across Drista's neck blood spilling out and her body going limp.

Nothing was worse than having to watch your best friend die, nothing or so they thought.

Now that just felt wrong

And then like she was nothing, Flame threw Drista aside, Dream then pulled the second figure forward, Tommy.

Like Drista, Dream slit his throat but not before he said "oh, I missed the looks on your face, you're alone now, you got what the gods gave you!"

Like magic the puzzle pieces clicked together

"Dream!" they yelled again, "why don't we finish this how we started it! With you killing me!"

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