Chapter 3: The One In My Dreams (Part 2)

Episode 296

(Yearning)

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'D*mn it! D*mn it! D*mn it! '

Leonus slammed his fist against the stone wall, knuckles whitening as his breathing turned ragged.

'Why? Why does it keep showing up in my dreams?'

He had buried those emotions—shoved them so deep they should've rotted away by now. And yet…

Here they were. Crawling back into his mind the moment he closed his eyes.

Why is this happening to me?

Leonus couldn't stop thinking about the nightmare.

That damn nightmare.

It clung to him like a sickness—drenched in silence and suffocation.

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I was in a forest.

But not the kind with life and wind and birdsong.

No… This one was dead. Silent. Wrong.

The sky above me was choked out by thick, unmoving black clouds. I couldn't even see the moon.

Then—

Rumble.

A flash of lightning tore through the dark.

And just for a second, I saw it—