Morpheus | Lee Felix

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"How long was I absent?" She immediately asked Nayin, who visited her in her home to help her get to school.

"About a week." She said as she helps her get down the stairs. There was no elevator available.

"I missed so much, didn't I?"

"You definitely did. But don't worry, you already answered your home works. I asked Alex to bring it to you. Don't you remember that? You earned a short term memory in that accident?"

Ara suddenly didn't remember anything. She only remember carrying her bag out of the hospital. She doesn't remember Alex piling her with homework or both of them coming there in general.

She only remember bright light and crutches.

"What exactly happened? The accident and everything." Ara asked as if she didn't experience it all.

"Well, you were apparently scratching your eyes as if there's something in it. You didn't realize that you were swiveli---" Ara stopped her halfway.

"No. I mean when I was at the hospital." Ara asked one more time and Nayin sighed.

"You really don't remember? Okay, Alex and I visited you everyday. We let you eat and helped you up. We even brought you clothes and also let your mom know. Then... something weird happened."

"What happened?"

"As we were dropping of your mom and your siblings to the car, the hospital suddenly announced a blackout. We ran as fast as we can to your room, only to find out you already got out. We found you on the bench, sitting down with your bag beside you." Ara tilted her head in confusion.

"That's exactly what happened in my dream."

"What else happened?"

"When you were asleep, you were mumbling something repeatedly. It's as if you're possessed." Nayin shook her head and chuckled.

"What is it?"

"A name. Something with... An F? I don't know. You keep mumbling it and we can't understand at all."

Her head in already in a daze. First, this necklace that she can't remove. Then, dreams came. And now, she's mumbling a name? What more can she know about all these strange things happening to her?

"Nayin... Do you still have that book with you?" She asked as soon as they arrived in the library after tons of classes.

"The Greek Mythology book? Yeah." She rummaged in her bag and pulled out the book.

"I'm gonna go buy us some drinks. Do you want your usual?" Ara just nodded and Nayin scooted out of the library.

She opened it immediately, flipped the pages and stopped at the page where she found the necklace wedged in between.

She read closely and found a secret page waiting to be flapped open. How could she not notice that? That was where the necklace was from. She stroked the necklace and continued reading closely.

"Morpheus was known as the god of dreams. He shaped and formed the dreams, through which he could appear to mortals in any form. This talent made Morpheus a messenger of the gods, able to communicate divine messages to sleeping mortals."

"Morpheus? God of dreams? This can't be real." She thought to herself.

She must've gone crazy at this point. How can a god like Morpheus come right now on Earth to do his deeds? He might be dead. He might not be real. He might not even exist in this timeline. This is craziness. This is not true.

What if it's all just a coincidence? What if it just happened and she dreams like normal people?

Or...

What if he dreams of me too?
What if he's a real person?