Title: too late now
Rating: G
Fandom: Akai Ito
Relationship: none
Wordcount: 175
Short summary: Kei has returned from an aborted trip to Hemizuka, but she’s plagued by a repeating dream.
It’s been a week since school has restarted and in response to her classmates’ questions regarding her summer, Kei has just shrugged and smiled. But inside she’s still a mess. She doesn’t know how to explain everything, not even to her best friend. Like how real everything felt in something that was just a dream. The smell of blood, the clink of a bell, the swarm of blue butterflies… Running and running, panting and panting… And a giant tree in full bloom…
It can’t be real, whatever she thought she saw in her father’s old home. It can’t be real, because giant snakes and vampires and demons and spirits aren’t real. It can’t be real, because that’d be… too scary. She wants to forget, to erase it all… She wants everything to go back to normal.
But the dream repeats, night after night. It makes her think that perhaps, even though she has returned home... Maybe she should have stayed longer. Maybe there was something she was supposed to do.
But now it’s too late.