Destroy All

"Breakfast. Five minutes," my dad said as he knocked on my door.

"Huh?" I forgot to set my alarm, but usually didn't need it. Pushing myself out of bed, I stumbled over to the window. I was late. Abrea probably wondered what happened to me.

"Jasmine?" My dad knocked again.

"I'm up. Thanks!" I needed to hurry but pushed open the window instead. As I stared aimlessly out at the landscape, I thought of the dream.

Two entities had been speaking and their words filled my mind like they were within. Or, maybe I'd somehow traveled into their minds.

***

"The vampire child is not performing as expected. She doesn't care about her destiny or the fate of her kind. She's a total disappointment." He slithered his body around the vast darkness that was everywhere and nowhere. The inkiness seemed to expand and contract, like breathing, around them.