Dancing shadows, barking dogs
Shadows danced in darkness. They leapt into the air, glowed, disappeared for a while and appeared again, dancing around me. I didn’t even try to believe what I saw.
Far across the wooden bridge, dogs howled into thickness of the night. I shivered, and for a while, I thought I was dead.
Rein those dreams! Catch them, the shadows! said a voice, eerie and deep like the darkness.
A dog stared at me, eyes showering dots of fire. Then it barked, blood sputtering out of its mouth, ready to strike. What is this creature? I thought and felt cold, numb, lost…
The shadows continued their dance, now to the rhythm of sound I did not hear before. One of them seemed to look at me and pointed its fingers (seemed like fingers) into the darkness. Go? There? Yes? I said silently. The shadow seemed to agree.
I walked into the darkness, shadows dancing around me, barking dogs following me.
It was dark and damp.
I opened my eyes and lost my consciousness.
Tags: darkness, death, dreams, reflections, shadows
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September 27, 2008 at 3:38 am
here, we have this belief that dogs howling at night mean there are spirits abound. and it somehow made me wonder whether the character may in fact be really dead or spirit-traveling.
September 27, 2008 at 8:49 pm
the character was dreaming a lousy dream
October 21, 2008 at 1:28 am
It heralds the reaper!