DreamWeaver's Plane

Chapter 3: REVERIE, THE DREAMWEAVER

Chapter III

REVERIE, THE DREAMWEAVER

REVERIE SAT on his floating hammock. He felt the distress of the Hush Brothers even if they make no sound as they move around his chamber. They were devoted to their Silent Oath, the Covenant of Eternal Silence. But he knew they were discussing the incident earlier through their mind reading abilities among themselves.

Soon after, he saw the Lull Sisters in their flowing gowns of white carrying Sleep Berries and Moon Water from the Spring of Thoughts.

They fed him like the only mothers he knew in his entire life. He felt his body regained its strength from long years of sleep only to wake every century to feast at one night before returning to endless sleep.

He will make the most of this time for this was not a scheduled moment to wake. It was one of a million chances for him to rest spinning the Dream Wheel and enjoy the beauty of the Dream Tree where the butterflies of Dream World rest and feed through the flowers beneath the tree.

These butterflies were not the only creatures in his world aside from the Hush Brothers and Lull Sisters. There are also the moths sleeping in the bark of the tree.

The butterflies were his familiars who were once caterpillars that roam the human world feeding on leaves living on the breath of people who wish for a good life. They collect these wishes, prayers and desires of humans bringing them to the tree where he spins the Dream Wheel, weaving beautiful dreams for people and returned to them by the butterflies as a message of realization after sleeping in their cocoon that he spins for the caterpillars.

The moths on the other hand were the bringers of bad dreams to evil humans to make them learn from their evil thoughts brought by the flight of these creatures.

There also were the fireflies that light the Dreamcave, his chamber. They served as light to the darkness hiding the cradle of the Dreamworld from the Waking world. Aside from lighting the path for all of Dream World's habitants, their main purpose was to guard him. The Dreamweaver who sustains the world of Dreaming.

One of the Lull Sisters spoke, "I know we have to resolve this incident finding this trespasser to our hidden world. "

She looked at one of the Hush Brothers whom Reverie knew spoke through her mind.

"Yes. He might be the Dreamwalker we ought to prevent from waking the Dreamweaver from his sleep and could bring Chaos to the world," whispered by the Lull sister who spoke earlier as if avoiding to reveal secrets to Reverie.

Reverie felt his eyes getting cloudy and his body lying back to sleep. Before his eyes closed, he saw the Hush Brothers fanning the smoke from crushed seeds that carried him back to Dreaming. He inhaled those smoke and he felt his body floating in air and the smoke wrapping his body and the Dream Tree. The smoke formed into a translucent hammock that suspended him in the air as he heard the Lull Sisters chanting their songs again. Their lullaby gently moved the smoke hammock, having Reverie drift back to sleep and back to Dreaming.

REVERIE FOUND himself spinning the Dream Wheel again but he seemed to have left his consciousness in the time he saw that boy the Hush Brothers and Lull Sisters called a Dreamwalker.

He could not explain why he should cause quite a stir to the Covenant who nurtured him for centuries. Maybe because, it was the first time that a trespasser woke Reverie from his sleep but there were others who were lost to the Dream Weaver's Plane before, curious humans playing upon the dreaming world because their waking world was too dreary to live with eyes opened.

There was something to this boy for his guides and guardians were agitated even the most silent of them. There was more he needed to know but he was certain they would not let him on some details to keep the secrecy of the Dream World from unraveling. All he got from them in the earlier years he confronted the Hush Brothers and Lull Sisters about knowing the world he grew up with was a warning. Knowing more could shake the foundations of their world. There is bliss in ignorance and that he should leave the worries to his keepers.

This Dreamwalker seemed strong enough to reach his chambers despite the wards in place as ancient as the time of Creation. Apart from that, he is the first human face he came across in his waking hours. Such a lovely face, yet with sad brown eyes.

Reverie felt drowning in those eyes and he only saw oceans in people's dreams. The Dreamwalker's eyes have depth within them that he wishes to explore.

But how can he reach him when he was trapped in this chamber and can only see the human world through the butterflies and moths in the Dream Tree.

Over centuries of slumber, the Endless Sleep where he weaves the dreams of humans letting them live on despite the sufferings of reality. This boy has awoken some feelings too foreign for Reverie to grasp.

Is this what the dreamers call attraction? Lust? Love? He kept pondering over them. It was different just to watch them from memories or dreams brought by the moths and butterflies. Stories he can listen to which he secretly wished he could experience for himself.

He wanted to see the boy again and know his name. Hear his voice and know how it feels to his pointed ears.

Will he ever find his way to his chambers again? From now he knew the Hush Brothers and Lull Sisters were already moving his chamber to another location. They may be building walls of maze around him to protect him from prying eyes.

It saddens him to know the Dreamwalker will not find him again, leaving him back to his lonely endless sleep. He would wait another century to wake up again for brief moments to feast on the fruits of the Dream World, feel the air of the cave he slept in and touch the ground where the Dream Tree stood through the ages with countless histories of the world since the Creation.