Dreaming of Stars

Trails to Space

I woke with a scream as the bed beneath me creaked with a rapid movement as Onca spazzed out of her sleep. "I didn't wake you up this time." Onca said sleepily as she lay back down in her soft bed and me in my rough one. "What is it?" Onca questioned.

"Nothing. Just another nightmare." I said as I hoped I wouldn't be questioned more.

"Ok, I'll let it go just as long as you don't wake me back up." Onca surrendered as I heard her get back into her comfortable sleeping position.

"Ok." I said as I looked out the window at the fleeing stars running from the sun. Or as dream me called the bright balls of light flowers. I had let Onca always think my dreams were nothing more than being adopted by a horrible family while they were so much worse. Also I had them over and over. That was the tenth time I had had that dream this month.

I slowly started to try to get ready to go to sleep again until I noticed my mind was already up and running in what little sunlight was shining through the window. I quickly decided to go on a walk so I nimbly jumped out of my bed without making a noise and sneakily crept towards our closed window. As soon as I reached the dirt coated glass window I slowly started to lift it upward in a way that would keep from waking up Onca.

As I squeezed through the small space in the wall cold air met my face and made me regret not bringing a blanket. But instead of turning back to risk my freedom for a blanket I closed the window. I turned around and looked at the moon that had been hidden from sight before as it moved towards the other side of the sky leaving the flowers on their own.

I turned around from the night sky as I started my walk through the wild grass at my feet. As I walked I took note of all the kinds of plants I saw and the patterns that related them to similar looking greenery. As I kept looking around the grass I heard a sound of moving grass like another person was out with me.

I rushed around to see the man that had been at the market standing in front of me with a deer in the head lights kind of look. "Corvus?" I asked as the man who had a striking resemblance to the murderer in my dream ran away through the fields and me giving no chase. Instead I watched in stunned silence as my dream ran away from me.

After about five minutes of watching the spot he had stood I looked up at the stars that would soon be outshone by the largest of them all, my sun. But as I watched them my imagination started to take over as it lit up a curvy path of bright stars that seemed like some kind of map, taking me somewhere. But as I stood in awe I finally noticed a path of small stars that had seemed to float over to me leading a path to the rest of the map. I reached my hand out to touch the one nearest to me but as I did my hand went directly through it with no indication of my touch besides the sight of my arm sticking through it. 

"I seriously need to wake up." I told myself as I started walking back to the window I had escaped from. After a short walk back to it I slowly climbed back in the way I had before but as I placed my right foot on the floor I found I was obviously expected.

"Spill it, and I don't mean like that girl yesterday." Onca demanded as she sat up on her bed with her arms crossed. It was self-evident that she hadn't just woken up. 

"What do you mean? You know I go on walks all the time." I answered calmly as I pulled the rest of me in and closed the window without bothering to do it slowly.

"Yeah but you usually don't look afraid, confused and then reach out into the air to touch something curiously." she said as I finally realized she must have been watching me but hadn't seen the distant man or the stars that had come to lead me away. 

"Just a wondering deer and some kind of bug I have never seen before." I answered nonchalantly as I walked over to Onca,"Why don't we go get a head start on making our own bread today?" I asked as I held my hand out to her.

"Yeah, sure. Let's not give that little brat a chance to annoy me again." Onca said as she dragged to the door and led me to the bare kitchen and quickly took some materials and started cooking. "How about you start the fire?" she told me knowing I wasn't the best at cooking.

"Yeah." I answered as I picked up the flint and steel after I loaded the oven with fire wood. I quickly struck the fire as Onca just about finished making the materials to cook the bread. 

Just as we were about to stick the bread into the fire though The Keeper walked in with a tired expression on her face "Someone is here to see you Vela." she said as she stumbled out of the room.

"Do you know who it is?" Onca asked me as she finished putting the bread in by herself.

"No." I answered as I walked out and into the room that I had been eavesdropping on the other day to find the young girl was being adopted. I was sad that she was going to get adopted after being an orphan for only a few days but the saddest part was she had been rejected soon after she was taken. Once I finally walked into the room though all my thoughts quickly vanished at the sight of who was here to see me.