Dhiate was so comfortable. It took only a few minutes for him to fall into a deep slumber. He was dead to the world for many hours, the only movement was his breathing and eyes fluttering beneath their lids. An elephant could have thrown a party not a foot from him and he would have never known. His mind was too preoccupied to care about the world's doings.
Fire. Fire, it was everywhere. It was in the heavens and in the earth. It chased him from behind and at the same time lay in wait before him. He couldn't turn right. He couldn't turn left. It breathed into him. The smoke filled his eyes, went down his nose and began to dance in his lungs. It burned him from the inside out. His chest felt tight and it was growing harder to breathe. His vision began to blur and he saw everything from a tunnel. It hurt. It burned. Why didn't it stop? His legs and shoulders ached from running, but no matter how far or fast he ran, it never stopped. Never ceased. Endless fire for all eternity.
Dhiate's eyes flickered behind his eyelids. These weren't nightmares. They were memories and all the more terrible because of it. He opened his eyes to see Hadley looking rather distressed. He rolled off of his one time lover and almost fell back asleep. He was in that little point where he was still conscious, but his brain would treat this encounter as a mere dream. "You okay?"
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