MacLeod: Reforged: Echo of Tomorrow

Kirina's dreams were always odd. Her dream now was no different.

She seemed to be flying across a night sky of red stars, under a blood moon. Arms outstretched, she bounced across crimson clouds, shaping lollipops and candy bars with every bound.

Until, she found a lonely, midnight blue cloud in the shape of a heart.

Smiling, she floated to where her step created a patch of red spreading little by little over the dark cloud.

But what was odd was the cloud itself was its tar like appearance. Cold and like oil, her patches of red sank into the cloud, not mixing with it and making a dark violet color.

A young man in a blue-edged black coat stood alone with his hood over his head.

Skipping around him, Kirina hugged him from the front, ear to his chest.

But his body felt cold, distant, and his heart was wrong.

Thump-thump-thump-thump...

This familiar rapid succession of beats was gradually sounding faster and stronger.

Th-thump-thump-thump.

Faster. The ground felt soft.

Th-th-th-thump.

Stronger. The ground grew softer.

Th-th-th-thump!

Faster and stronger, this beat felt wrong. Kirina's feet were already beneath the surface.

TH-TH-TH-THUMP!

This increasing beat continued until a soft pop sounded. And the beat ceased.

With a look of fearful worry, Kirina looked up at her young man's brilliant, sky-blue eyes. And he looked back at hers.

But like dye in a drop of water, the black of his pupil spread into his iris.

Then, as if the cloud beneath her feet was slick rubber, the space beneath Kirina opened to form a pit.

And she started to fall.

Quickly, she grabbed the belts that held the coat's chest in place. But all three of them snapped undone. And the young man did nothing but watch.

As gravity pulled her down further, her attempts at holding the front of his coat were futile. A look of fear stained her face.

Sliding further and further, Kirina grabbed the young man's dragonshield belt buckle and tried pulling herself up.

But as if something cold grabbed her ankles -- too strong for her to resist -- the buckle broke in two and she dropped into a pit of rising tar.

Eyes snapping only to the young man's boots, only near the pit's edge. She tried grabbing for them as tears welled in her eyes. The slick wall prevented any foothold while the level of tar rose as the pit grew deeper.

With one last attempt at the wall, she simply fell on her back, and sank in he tar.

Tears streaming down her eyes, she reached for the apathetic young man, who's right arm moved as if to reach for her as the tar consumed her wholly.

No words.

Not a sound.

Only the feeling of falling.

And after all of that time flying, too.

The girl simply shut her eyes and accepted what was to come, tears leaking out as she asked herself "Why?"

Why would the young man. Tall and strong. Kind and loving. But furious and fear inspiring. Let her fall?

These thoughts ended with her fall halted by way of something soft under her. Accompanying this feeling, something warm and soft covered her entire body.

Deciding to open her eyes, Kirina looked at the inside of a familiar bedroom, dimly lit by Vale City's lights. The only difference was the lack of a hammock above her, where her young man usually guarded her.

It was without Revan's presence after a nightmare that scared Kirina the most.

But her awakening was only momentary. She fell asleep crying, cuddling with her pillow.