Snippet #1487659

About ten minutes after Alayna fell asleep, the dreams began. They started over a year ago right after Edgar died. This time, Alayna was standing a cold and bleak hallway. It was filled with mirrors side-by-side and all of them were broken. What could this mean? In her dream, Alayna wore a simple grey gown and her feet were bare. She started walking through the hallway.

Outside the dream, Alayna was laying in bed when she got up. Ever since the dreams started, Alayna had sleepwalking problems. At home, she always kept the doors locked to her chambers since she was on the second floor. Here though, Alayna opened the door and walked into the hallway.
During this time, Alayna opened a door in her dream and walked out into a deserted wasteland. It was so barren and the wind was blowing so hard that Alayna had a hard time standing. She felt so lost for some reason. She was still confused on why she was dreaming this. There was a numbness inside of her that also felt sadness.

Unaware that she is sleepwalking, Alayna’s body starts reacting to the dream and tears start to roll down her pale face. After walking down the hallway, she comes into the main foyer and goes down another hall. If anyone saw her, they would have thought they saw a ghost simply because by how she was walking and the expression on her face. Even though she is asleep, her eyes were only halfway shut. Her hair looked translucent in the dark hallway and she looked to be floating as she walked. Gone was the icy woman from the party, only to be replaced by a mysterious figure that was at her most vulnerable and appeared to be not of this world. Eventually she found herself opening another door, which happened to be the music room.

In the dream, Alayna found herself in an enclosed space and felt scared. It was like she couldn’t breathe here. She searched the walls, trying to find a way out, but to no avail. She heard a voice and turned around. Shocked at what she saw, she dropped to her knees, doing the same thing outside the dream. In front of her were three little kids. One was a boy and two were girls. One boy and girl had brown hair and the other girl, who was the smallest, had light blonde hair. Each had a pair of wings behind them. What shocked Alayna the most was that she knew instantly what these three kids represented. She tried reaching out to them but they seem to get farther away from her.
“Don’t go, please. Please . . .” she cried out feeling her heart break all over again.

Alayna cried the same words over and over, in her dream and outside of it. The children represented her biggest failure and heartache, the inability to give birth. This tore her apart as nothing else did. The feeling of happiness she felt carrying life inside of her, only to be taken away. Edgar’s reaction to this made it even worse for he never gave a word of comfort and expected her to recover quickly from the miscarriages. It had only been two weeks after the second miscarriage that he expected her to ‘try again’. She refused him, saying she needed more time to recover. That had been the first time he raped her. What was worse is that she eventually let him. She did become pregnant again shortly, but like the others, she lost it. Two days after that one, Edgar had died. Alayna thought his death was poetic justice and had honestly not grieved for him since any affection she had for him died long ago. Her heart was dead by that time. However, seeing these children brought all the pain and heartbreak back and she found herself shattered all over again. As the children vanished in her dream, Alayna collapsed on the floor and cried her heart out.