Decisions

Dreams - Lyra's P.O.V

I drift off smiling. My life had taken a large turn and now I was afraid for a life that isn't even here yet. I fall asleep and a dream starts to form around me.

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I look around and I see I'm in a hallway. Light pours from everywhere as the clatter of dishes rushes from a room up ahead. I head towards the sound and turn to my right to see a tall woman with red hair and orange tips washing dishes humming to herself. The toon is familiar. It's a song from my childhood something my mother used to sing to me.

The night is calm, with the moon and stars
The stars are bright, shining with all there might.
We look up at the sky blue as the deepest dream.
Sleep now, sleep now and sing with the moon.
Stars at night warm and bright guide us home, home to night.
Give us pleasant dreams, oh give us pleasant dreams.
Take us home to see our loved ones, near and far even if evil we must fight

She hums this over and over till I hear the door open behind me and I hear laughter. The woman puts the plate that she holds in her hand in the sink and wipes her hands off with a towel before she runs out of the kitchen to grab a small girl who barely looks like her.

The girl has red hair with orange tips and bright green eyes. Her skin is a dark tan. She wears a small green dress with brown boots. She turns and runs away from the woman only to turn away from the door where a tall man with bright green eyes, tan skin, and brown hair walks in acting like a monster. He wears a dark green shirt and blue jeans with brown boots like the little girl. He raises his eyes to his wife and smiles as she holds her laughter back.

"Muma... Help me Muma it's a monster. He wants to eat me!" The child screams running to her mother. Her mother smiles and picks her up.

"No not my daughter. Ah he's going to eat us!" The mother crys running away to the kitchen as her husband follows.

The father speaks up as they leave. "I'm going to eat you both. I'm going to gobble you both up whole!" He says and smiles when he hears his daughters squeals of joy. He rushes into the kitchen and starts to tickle the little girl taking her from her mother's arms. The daughter laughs and squeezes her father's neck with her small arms smiling. He squeezes her back as his wife walks over to join the hug.

"Lyra sweetie I think you need to go to sleep." The little girls father says softly. He doesn't hear a response from the little girl.

The mother looks and laughs. "Kanan dear I don't think you'll get much out of her now." She says smiling. Kanan looks at his daughter. He pulls her head away from his neck and sees her sleeping. He shakes his head smiling. He raps his arms around his daughter and walks out of the kitchen. I follow him up stairs to a light green room with a bed in the corner and a bed side table. A dresser and toy box on the others side of the room.

He walks in and lays her down gently. He turns to leave but a small hand grabs his softly. "Daddu don't leave me please." She says patting the empty space next to her. He smiles and slides into bed with her.

Everything fades and another background comes into view. The same girl, just a little older, stands at the edge of the town. She sees a large grey ship heading towards town. She turns and runs tripping over rocks but somehow continues to run with out falling. She weaves her way through everyone in the market. She ends up going a complete circle.

"The Empire's coming!" She crys out pointing at the ship getting closer. Everyone looks up and gasps. The little girl runs through the crowd trying to find her father. She runs into someone and when she looks up its her father. "Daddu the Empire is here." She says pointing up. Her father looks up and he grabs his daughters hand.

"Come on we need to get you home now." He says and pulls her through the crowd. Troopers already walk through the town when her father falls against a house they walk next to. He holds his head with his free hand as his daughter looks up at him with soft worried eye's.

"Daddu... Daddu what's wrong?" She asks in alarm. Her father shakes his head and straightens up. He starts to walk but falls against the wall again. "You need to stay." The little girl says lifting her father's face with her hands on his cheeks. She smashes his lips together and laughs at the way he looks. "Daddu looks like a fishy." She laughs doing it to herself.

The little girl turns around to run in a small circles but she bumps into a storm trooper, two others next to the one she ran into, and gets thrown to the ground. Her father looks up and the troopers move there guns. His eyes widen as he looks at his daughter.

"Sweetie the troopers wish to speak with me go home. Mommy will be waiting for you okay sweetie?" He asks her his hands up in the air. The little girl looks at him with a desperate look but nods her head.

She starts to get up but instead of running away she runs to her father's leg. She grabs it and hides behind him. The troopers go for her but a voice from behind them makes them stop.

"I will inspect this one go check someone else." Says a talk man with pale skin. Red marks are under his eyes and his eyes glow yellow and red. The little girl whimpers behind her father. The Imperial looks at the child's father and kneels in front of him and looks at the child hiding.

"It is okay young one I will not hurt you." He whispers softly. The child looks around her father's leg only for a second before hiding again.
Her father swallows and pats his daughters head his arms now at his side's.

"Its okay sweetie. Say hello." Her father urges her his voice a little tight.

The little girl peeks around her father's leg but finally steps out and sticks her hand out slowly, unsure if it's safe. "H-hello." She says her other arm rapped around her father's leg. The man takes her hand and shakes it.

"I have a question and I need you to answer me honestly okay. Has anything weird happened here or have you meet anyone different then the rest?" He asks her. The little girl shakes her head and the man straightens up, walks off to be joined by some troopers. Once there gone her father picks her up and runs home to check on his wife.

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When I wake up I look around. The room is dark but I hear uneven breathing somewhere in the room but its not above me or beside me.