The Dreamrunner was sitting alone, underneath a tree.
He didn’t know where or when he was.
Existing only in dreams meant keeping track of time was impossible.
Seconds turned into days into months into decades.
The Dreamrunner was eating an apple, chewing on something with no taste. No feeling. He knew he was chewing, but he didn’t know what he was chewing on until he looked at the apple again.
The Dreamrunner looked around.
He was in an empty field, not a single thing visible except for the world that he was living in.
He took another bite of the apple, chewing on the formless and tasteless mush as if it was nothing.
He didn’t need to eat, but it made him feel better about himself.
It helped him feel like he did exist.
It was necessary.
Everything was slowly beginning to turn dark.
The Dreamrunner sighed, sounding depressed as he stood up.
There weren’t many places to go, but The Dreamrunner began to climb the nearest tree. The leaves themselves were glowing bright golden light.
The Dreamrunner grabbed one, immediately being sucked into a new world.
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The Dreamrunner was now in a new world.
He looked around, floating aimlessly in space.34Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTvFyCHRppN
As he turned, he was staring at a massive blue, white, and green sphere. The Dreamrunner smiled, staring at The Earth as he began to float away from it, landing softly and peacefully on the moon, as if gravity wasn’t a thing.
The Dreamrunner sat on a pile of moon rocks, looking to his side to see a young child.
A young child smiling as they stared at the Earth from the Moon.
The Dreamrunner kept sitting and watched the child’s enthusiasm and joy…emotions that he couldn’t understand or feel.
“Hey, you like space huh?” The Dreamrunner asked as they made their way over, sitting on the moon next to the child.
The young and small child turned and nodded.
As they squatted to sit down, the surface of the moon slightly shifted to create a small stump the kid could sit on with ease.
The kid looked up at the moon with wonder and curiosity in his eyes.
“You wanna go to the moon?” Dreamrunner asked, smiling at the kid.
The kid smiled and nodded.
There was something…off.
Dreamrunner looked at the hair on the kid’s head. It looked fake and thin, like he could run his hand through it and it would all float away.
The kid’s body was quite thin and frail.
His face looked tired and weak.
“How are you feeling?” Dreamrunner asked.
The kid didn’t respond at first.
“I…don’t feel good.” The kid said in a weak voice.
“What’s wrong?” Dreamrunner asked.
The kid weakly cough, clutching his chest with frail and shaking hands.
“I’m sick…I’ve been sick for a long time. My parents…promise me that…when I get better I can go to space. But they’ve been saying that for years and nothing has gotten better. I feel worse and worse.” The kid rambled slowly and weakly with pained and slow breathing.
“What are you sick with?” Dreamrunner asked.
The kid sighed.
“I don’t know. They say words, but I don’t understand them.” The kid said.
“How old are you?” Dreamrunner asked.
“I’m five years old.” The kid replied.
“You’re pretty smart for a five year old.” Dreamrunner said with a warm smile, trying to make the kid smile.
“Thanks. I spend so much time in hospitals, all I do is read. I don’t go to school or anything.” The kid replied.
“Do you have any friends?” Dreamrunner asked.
“Can I say the nurses that take care of me?” The kid asked as they looked up at Dreamrunner.
The hair on their head was slowly beginning to fly from the hair and fly across the surface of the moon despite there being no wind.
“Sure.” Dreamrunner said.
“Then I have quite a few friends.” The kid said, trying their best to smile.
The two sat in silence as they both looked at the Earth again, which spun slowly thousands and thousands of miles away.
“Are you my friend?” The boy asked.
Dreamrunner looked at the kid, who had reached out and softly took his hand in his own.
“What?” Dreamrunner asked.
The kid looked up at him as the hair was disappearing more and more.
“Are we friends?” The boy asked.
Dreamrunner smiled and scooted closer to the kid.
“Yes. We’re friends.” He replied.
“Yay.” The kid said quite weakly and rested his head against Dreamrunner, who lifted his arm up and wrapped it around the kid.
The two continued to sit.
The universe around them was slowly beginning to grow darker and darker. The stars twinkling were disappearing into a cloud of darkness. The shadows were slowly moving their way around, surrounding the moon and Earth.
“What’s happening?” The kid asked.
Dreamrunner kept holding the kid close.
“You’re going to wake up soon.” Dreamrunner replied.
“Really?” The kid asked.
“Yes. You’ll get to wake up and live another day.” Dreamrunner replied.
“So, I’m going to be okay?” The kid asked, looking up with teary eyes and the final hairs hanging onto his head.
“You’re going to be okay. I’ll be here waiting for you.” Dreamrunner replied.
The kid shifted and wrapped both arms around Dreamrunner’s waist.
“Thank you.” The kid said quietly.
Dreamrunner stared at the Earth that was slowly disappearing in the shadows.
He looked down.
The kid was gone.
Nowhere to be seen.
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Dreamrunner didn’t have emotions, but his face was doing its best at what he thought a sad face was supposed to be.
Dreamrunner sighed and slowly stood up, looking down at the two stumps while a very small pile of thin hair was sitting on the surface.
Dreamrunner looked around to see more and more of the moon being swallowed by the shadows.
He turned around and walked slowly to one of the craters on the moon, which had a faint golden glow.
Dreamrunner held his arms out and jumped forward, being swallowed by the light as the shadows overrun and swallowed the moon whole.
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