Dreams

The search went on for a time that felt longer than hours at this point. This feeling of eternity just devouring this entire time without us feeling it, realizing it.

"Guys… I don't think we can find him…" I murmured under my nose hoping that no one would hear it. Much to my hopes, they unfortunately did and we stopped.

"We, not find Bog?" Finn was the person I really didn't want to hear it. He looked at us incredibly sad as if he was about to fall into a lament.

"We will definitely find him," Estel reassured him while looking somewhere else, somewhere where I could see his face clearly. He bit his lip and a small droplet of blood fell down his chin, even he doesn't believe that we would find him. The chances are as shallow as the body of the goblin, there are almost none. I leaned towards his ear.

"Do you believe that we will find him?" A whisper got to his ear and his face went a little pale.

"We've been searching for a very long time, a very long time. I don't believe that he is still… Alive." He whispered back while Finn wasn't looking at us, Matthew and Marcus heard it though.

"What are we going to tell him?" Marcus joined the conversation and also in a whisper.

"We can't just say that we won't find him." Matthew also entered the room of conversation with his now a little rougher voice.

"If we won't escape this cave we will either die from exhaustion or starvation if we won't get caught by the spiders. We should run away from here." Estel told the three of us about it and then his voice went also to a different tone. "We need to tell him." It sounded completely hollow from the inside as if his soul was ripped from him.

"You are right but… Who is going to tell him?" What he says is right. If we won't escape now or at least try… How do we even escape?

"I will, he doesn't seem to like me very much so I will do it." The dwarf looked at the goblin and so did the rest of us. "Finn, I need to tell you something."

"What?" Finn answered.

"Listen… We can't go any further. We are all starving and until now there was not a single trace of Bog… I'm really sad to tell you that but we have to escape now." He patted his shoulder while saying it. Finn looked down and a tear fell down his face.

"Is Bog… Dead?" He asked and silence appeared between all of us. What can we tell him? We don't know if he is dead or not… We should look for him but as Matthew said, we are all almost starving.

"No. But we will die if we won't go." Marcus with an emotionless voice completely destroyed Finn's world.

"Finn… Understands…" I can't look at him, he looks so sad. Too sad to actually look at him normally, it just makes one's heart gets cut by that stare.

"Maybe he is already out?" The elf certainly wanted to change the atmosphere, it would be really hard to move around without changing this small thing. Finn smiled a little and seems to have worked.

"How will we find the entrance?" The question came out of my mouth and a smirk appeared on Marcus's face. His nose then made a sound, he smelled something?

"This way, I smell the cold wind from the outside. It comes from that direction, pretty far away. We need to go now if we want to eat something. Quick." He is really something huh? He can smell the cold winds coming from the outside of the cave, that's an experienced hunter.

"When it comes to those things he is always right…" Estel looked at me with a very disappointed face, why disappointed though?

"So let's just go. But another question, what if the spiders will get on our tail? How will we run away?" We started going where Marcus pointed while the question was still in the air.

"There is not much space between the rocks, of course, we can't run away even then but we will have time to drop down. They won't be able to reach us, but then we won't be able to run any further. Let's just hope that we will react in time." Another smirk appeared on Marcus's face as he said that. It gets a little annoying when he is just so 'enlightened'.

"That makes a lot of sense." The spiders are so big they probably can't move freely between those 'teeth', better than we for sure but not a lot. We then went through the rocks in complete silence, we didn't need words. After several minutes, probably. I started feeling the outside breeze as well. How long haven't the spiders been around? Is it more than an hour? How long have we been here?

"Let's go faster. It feels very unsettling to walk around this cave." my words left my mouth but there was no answer to come back. The cold winds got a lot stronger and the cocoons have been swinging to left and right. My legs slowly started going numb, is it from the cold or the amount of physical stress I put upon my body. I just don't know…

A light. A strong light appeared, a single ray of light went through. It's probably the entrance but still very far away. That single ray of light went through all of the rocks meeting my eyes right at this moment. Hope? Is that redemption? We need to reach that place, I want to be there as fast as possible.

Why are we not talking? What are we doing… This feels so weird, empty, and hollow. We are supposed to work together… Isn't talking about that? Another couple of minutes, no spiders. I don't want to see them but it seems really weird that we haven't seen them for so long. Or was that actually long? Too many questions…

The entrance. The entrance was visible now! We were so close to it that we could see the white outskirts of the blizzard outside. The white cold got even more freezing as the wind was much stronger. It felt as if another blizzard was created inside of this cave.

Finn… The person that saved us. We weren't able to fulfill his wish of finding the person who saved him before and we can��t… What an unfair world. He seems so happy now because there is a chance of Bog being alive outside. It seems so weird knowing that the chances are so slim.

Another step closer to the now cold exit. Standing right before the hole that brings all of our hearts a beautiful moment of respite. A vision that threw all of us into awe, the great hole inside of a mountain now will be left, and all of its inhabitant spiders as well. The exit at our hands, this whole thing, the whole experience, and stress that could give a man something almost like a heart attack. We all then left that hellish place without looking back, the only thing I saw once I looked back at the entrance. Were the red eyes.

We finally made it. How long was it? The sky still in the nightly stars and the deep blue color.

"What the…" Before completing the sentence, I saw that there was no one. Me alone with no one in sight, the people that helped me… Estel, Marcus, Matthew, and lastly the goblin whose name is Finn. They all weren't there… And apparently, I also wasn't there. That was a false reality created by my sleeping mind. Was that a dream inside of a dream? Where did I get that one from before waking up in the cage? What the hell…

I completely woke up, looked around and the thing in my eyes was the dancing fire. They were still sleeping and as I looked behind the wooden wall closing out the woods. When my eyes met the outside world the sun was shining from under the crowns of the trees, showing that in no time the day will arrive.

"Again… What are those hallucinations? We all fell asleep because of that fire? Or was it just me? I don't know what's real and what isn't anymore…" The spider is hanging in the corner of the cave, a very small spider with red eyes. "Is that… The giant spider?" The image of the great spider was overriding the one of this small one. A smile appeared on my face and sweat fell down my forehead. "Am I going crazier than I already am?" The thought fogged my mind as Marcus was slowly waking up.

"You again woke up earlier than me?" He asked while slowly waking up from his 'bed'.

"I had a very strange nightmare…" My hand on my forehead feeling the sweat coming out.

"A nightmare? About what?" A question, a question with an answer pretty hard to answer as half of the dream has already disappeared.