Stars Dancing [Dreams-To-Lovers Romance]

RYST

Dream Journal

A crowded shopping mall— building of concrete, metal, and glass. Five stories with balconies all around, and people. There were people all around me, crashing into me. Crowds and crowds of people, all pressing in. I had to get away! I started running, slipping around the crowds of people. I saw an escalator going up. No one was on it. I stepped onto the escalator and started going up. But it stopped. So I tried running up the steps of the escalator, and it turned into a slide. I slipped down, rushing down the slide. I was falling and flailing and reaching out to grab onto something. My hands slipped. My socked feet slipped. I reached. Two arms wrapped around me from behind. All was still and quiet. I struggled, panting. Safe. Safe now. Safe now, love, I felt him say. I held still. I didn't want to move. I didn't want him to disappear. He murmured soothing words. Safe now. All safe. I've got you, I felt him say. I relaxed against him. Closed my eyes—

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My eyes flickered open to a dark room, not my bedroom in the monastery. Peydran's. I'd fallen asleep on Peydran's sofa. My heart ached with longing. I wanted to cry. "NO!" I said to myself. "NO! It was a good dream!"

I would feel all the good feelings. I grabbed a sofa cushion and turned over on my side, facing the back of the sofa. I held onto the sofa cushion like I was hugging it and buried my face in it. Focusing on the dream, I remembered how it felt.

Safe. Comfort. Relief. Safe. Relief. Love. Contentment. Love. My heart grew warmer, and I allowed the feelings of safety to fill me. All that tenderness coming from him; exactly how it felt to be in his arms. I let all of that love fill me.

I felt something. A hug. Barely there, but there. I fell asleep in my Ahtah's arms.