The Beauty of Nightmares
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Imagine having the same dream every night. Imagine that dream to be so realistic that sometimes it almost feels real. And now imagine the people from your dreams once were real people, just like you, living their life on earth.
Ophelia found out she has a special 'gift' as her mentor calls it. A 'gift' that can make her communicate with the dead in her dreams. Two years after she finds out about it she meets a boy in her dreams who looks shockingly familiar to the boy of her dreams from the real world. How is it possible for someone to be dead and alive at the same time? Or is the boy from her nightmares not the boy of her dreams? And what happens when you make friends in a world that only exists in your mind?
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