Moon Angel

Chapter 29: Remembering

Chapter 29: Remembering

I was in a field. I could hear a faint voice calling to me. It was a voice that I recognised from somewhere, but I couldn't pick exactly where I had heard it before.

"Where are you Selene? Why can't I find you?"

Was someone looking for me? I turned around and saw a young woman walking through the grass. She wore a white dress made out of strange material. The dress looked familiar. As she came closer, I realised the luminous quality of the fabric was the same as what the Lunairs had worn. Who was she? How come she knew me? These questions bombarded my mind. She was looking straight at me but it was as if her wandering gaze went straight through me.

"Where are you Selene? Why can't I find you?" She repeated the same words, but this time it was as if she was asking herself rather than someone else. I wanted to shout at her, "I'm right here" but I couldn't find my voice. She knelt down in front of me as if giving up. She wrapped two wings around her shoulders as if comforting herself. Wings! She was like me, and she was looking for me. Then it clicked. Cyra!

"We need you Selene," she said quietly. "We need you to come back. You need to save us." Her eyes were watery and as she looked at the ground, a tear escaped.

"I'm right here," I said. My voice had come back but she didn't seem to hear me. I reached out my arm to comfort her, to show her that I was right beside her but my arm passed straight through her. It was as if I didn't exist, or she didn't exist.

"I'm right here!" This time I shouted it, but it didn't make any difference. I sank to my knees. Nothing felt right. I looked at Cyra, kneeling in the grass, tears dripping down her cheeks the same way they were starting to leak down mine.

I woke with a sob, my face wet. For a moment I couldn't remember what I had been dreaming, and then it came back, all at once. Cyra was looking for me, or at least in the dream she was, but it felt so real. I was sure it was. She was out there somewhere, even after all these years, and she was trying to reach me. I could feel it. I wasn't sure how I knew, but I did.

I was suddenly overwhelmed by an emotion I couldn't quite place. Maybe it was sadness, or frustration, or maybe just a disappointment in myself.

I had forgotten about that side of me. I had been so involved in everything that was happening at Omega, that I had forgotten that I was needed somewhere else. All those memories of life on Elvira came flooding in. I was meant to be their Millennium, the one to save them, their source of hope, and I failed them. I forgot. And even when I did remember, I didn't do anything about it... because of Omega. It seemed like it had taken more from me than I had realised.

She said she needed me, that they needed me to come back to Elvira. She was trying to find me, and I hadn't been able to be found. I was sure it wasn't just a dream. It seemed that my dreams had always held memories or messages, and I couldn't see why this one would be any different.

I was even more convinced than ever that I needed to get out of Omega, to clear my head, to start again.

From there I would work out what to do and how to contact Cyra. Or maybe she would contact me.

I needed a plan. And as I lay awake in bed, thinking, a plan began to hatch...

-A/N- Another chapter as promised. Please review. 

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