Inspired by Cosmosdex
You Were Right
I haven't been able to get a wink of sleep lately. My usual five hours has been slowly diminishing, more and more.
Long have I struggled to rest, and even after so many people have asked, only I really know why.
Those memories replay itself every single night, and I know they control me more than I do with them.
Aestus
The Reporter
Haah...Haah...
In front of me is a corpse, already rotting on the outside. No amount of whispering that it's just a dream can comfort me, when I keep myself in check through the horrific tapings of my soul.
Aestus
The Reporter
I...I just wanted to go home! You did this. You did this to me!
I blame the Sun who sneers at my words, knowing well none of it is real. That none of this will solve anything.
The tears on my face will never heal what I ruined.
Aestus
The Reporter
She wanted me to misbehave. She doesn't even know what...you did...
And how could she? I never even told her.
Nobody else will ever know.
Aestus
The Reporter
Please, you're...you're just like me, aren't you?
Aestus
The Reporter
You must understand. It was everyone else who pushed me to do it!
Aestus
The Reporter
End my pain and make me forget it all!
In front of me, the corpse fades to dust. And the man whose hands I still feel hears my plea.
There I had hoped...that my heart would burst, and I would die in my sleep once and for all.
If only that were true.
Rigel
A Fallen Dream
No.
Aestus
The Reporter
...Why...
Rigel
A Fallen Dream
How many times has this happened now, Aestus?
Rigel
A Fallen Dream
You can't change what you did.
Rigel
A Fallen Dream
I can't, either.
Rigel
A Fallen Dream
We both took things too far. And we'll both...suffer the same fate.
Aestus
The Reporter
....
What a joke, trying to convince myself otherwise. Whose hands is covered in blood?
And whose hands are holding mine?
Aestus
The Reporter
Aha...Ahaha...
Aestus
The Reporter
...I really am foolish for finding comfort in you.
Aestus
The Reporter
I am a bad person.
Aestus
The Reporter
And all of this...
Rigel
A Fallen Dream
...is our own doing.
Rigel
A Fallen Dream
We did this. Not them.
Rigel
A Fallen Dream
And in time, everyone will stop caring.
Aestus
The Reporter
I want this pain to end.
Rigel
A Fallen Dream
It never will.
Aestus
The Reporter
I want to share my pain with you.
Rigel
A Fallen Dream
You will never be able to.
Aestus
The Reporter
I need to stay. I need to stay with you. Just a little longer. Please?
Rigel
A Fallen Dream
.....
Rigel
A Fallen Dream
Go home, Aestus.
Rigel
A Fallen Dream
Someday you'll find what you need.
The rays shone upon my face, and I knew...
Our paths will cross only in our dreams.