Yumeost [ Fast • SOLUTION ]
You will remember the facts, the Yumeost said gently. But not the feeling. That is the cost of dreaming. To dream deeply is to wake hollow. I am not cruel, Kael. I am kind. I spare you the weight of a thousand lost worlds.
“Don’t take that one,” he said, his voice cracking. yumeost
In its hands, a broom. At its feet, a pile of things that looked like crumpled film reels, each one flickering with tiny, stolen scenes: a wedding kiss, a child’s first step, a man laughing with friends at a bar. The figure swept them into a black sack. You will remember the facts, the Yumeost said gently
Kael looked down at the pile. One of the reels caught his eye: a woman with dark hair, laughing, reaching out her hand. His mother. She had died when he was twelve. In his dreams, she still made him breakfast. In the waking world, he hadn’t visited her grave in years. To dream deeply is to wake hollow