The Weight of the World (locked to abidingstoic)

[windlancer]

He didn't know if he could handle this. Any of it. Dilan had regained his heart, and with it his memories. All of them. Xaldin. The Beast. The woman, Belle. Dying. He remembered dying. He dreamed it, being dragged down into oblivion and unraveled like so much loose thread. It was a regular enough dream that lately that was all he had been dreaming. Every night for the last three nights. The dark circles under his eyes were indication enough that he'd been losing sleep. Most of the time his days were spent in a haze of melancholy, going about looking for something, anything to do to keep himself occupied, to take his mind off the monster that was Xaldin. If one of the others didn't chase him back to his room, he would work until his shoulders were sore and his legs could barely support him.

But tonight was different. Worse.

Dilan had managed to throw the blankets off himself in the middle of the night. He groaned in his sleep, turning over from his back onto his side. The same nightmare. The Nobody that wore his face bearing down on him, no matter how fast he ran, no matter how hard he tried to escape, the lancer was gaining on him. A whimper escaped him in his sleep...blissfully he was unaware of how much like a terrified child he sounded.

He heard the whistle of a spear in his dream. Two of them landed in his back.

Dilan awakened with a jolt, a horrified scream tearing out of his throat.