ECLIPSE [A KREW X OMORI AU]

26: I AM DREAMER

You sit in a long suffocating hallway. You have denied yourself of the curiosity of checking it out, why did you have to think of stupid things? Look where it brought you! You were just having a good picnic and everything just.. you sigh as you get up, you doubt you'd be able to head back if you do nothing now. You'll just die of boredom.

You make your way through the endless hallway, it's stone cold. And you're all alone too, how great. You clutch your stomach as you continue walking down the hallway, the air is suffocating. Have you said that before? Suffocating. You like saying that word, well.. thinking it actually. But.. you know. Suffocating. This'll surely distract yourself.

"You have come to seek the truth once again, DREAMER. Each time, your adventures may be disparate but in the end.. they'll always lead you back here"

The voice exclaims, it was a quiet one, a female voice. You dart your eyes around the place, where was the voice coming from?

"Not to be a bearer of bad news.. but the truth will always stay the same, it will never change"

You see.. you stop trying to look around, as you continue walking down the path, listening to the voice as if you were listening to a podcast while walking.. who does that?

"The path of the truth was once here before being changed to a lighthouse surrounded by endless sea, then to a library banished deep underground, then to an old barn on a distant world, and this time.. in the heart of the vast forest"

"No matter how much times the path is concealed, the daring little boy will always find it. And your dear sister, she will always guide you towards it. Even as hollow entities, they still know. They will forever know the truth as they swear to bring it to their graves, only that one had passed far too early"

Don't.. don't say that.

"Death may not be of danger here, but memories of them do not fade so easily. Your friends, for example, time and time again was always met with a less gruesome fate. Although they are always revived, the most haunts the world.. even if only their bones remains. The long lost souls sink here, to the bottom of the Deep well before becoming nothing. You have forsaken them, yet they still yearn for your care..! Do you take pity of them? The poor souls.."

....souls. They're souls? In your.. headspace?

"They know nothing but to cry in pain, hoping you'll notice them someday. Bring them out of their misery"

Oh..

"And your dear sister Rainbow.. with her charming overprotectiveness, you couldn't bear to have her die again. So you take her role as the big sister while giving her the safety of a picnic blanket, yet even though it is in her nature to leave and protect. At a point in time, she will leave you once more and be born anew.. with a curse that you had put upon her"

"And the souls assigned to your friends, they are fragile and small. So they must remain asleep, yet the path to the truth is closer to your most precious room than ever before! Will you be able to bury it this time?"

Light. You see light. You start running, these words this person says.. and the walls.. the hallway.. the silence.. it makes you oh so very uneasy. And you don't like that feeling.

You run into a room with a singular window. It's curtains wide open to show the light of the moon. You breath audibly to yourself, as you slowly make your way towards the window. This seemed to be the mini version of Rainbow's window when she disappeared.. that one time. 

"You should know of the keys, the keys to the other realm. They may be different each time, but they will always open up the same door. The end of journey may not seem as satisfying as you had hoped, but if you do not face it.. you cannot continue. This form, though it hasn't shown it yet, is evil. And you would not see that side unless you fight it. When your intention becomes hazy, it will transpire the world like a familiar thick fog. And you will know when that happens. When that happens, return back to the forest's heart. The truth. And like each time before it, attempt to rewrite your fate"