Memories
Jun 16, 2007
::The following entry is written in Renawyn's first language, a script of symbols that few on Azeroth would be able to recognize, let alone read (Al Bhed)::
I'm actually sleeping on a ship tonight! Tulosa is laying not far from me. With all the recent nightmares lately, ships make me nervous. But Tulosa is very fond of them and I was too exhausted for the ride back. To complicate things, neither of us had dreamless sleep potions on us (Shara has stopped giving them to me). I decided, if I was going to have the nightmare again, might as well sleep on a ship and see how that worked.
Despite my exhaustion and Tulosa sleeping not too far away, it took hours for sleep to finally find me. I watch him still sleeping and wonder if the nightmares are finding him too. I already drifted off once tonight by the fire on shore. I feel like so much trouble.
The nightmare, it's always the same. I'm being pelted with rain, trying to keep my footing on a ship, waves crashing over the side. I have no idea why I'm there and the fear...even now I can feel it so intensely. It's hard to describe, but it's more than the storm, much more. In the distance I can barely see a form, a face that scares me and brings me comfort all at the same time. He's yelling something, I reach out to grab a pole to hang onto, but not before a giant wave crashes into me and there's nothing but water beneathe my feet. Unable to swim, I struggle, but I can't bring my head above the water and I start to drown. This dream has often caused me to stop breathing in my sleep, which is the biggest reason that Shara started giving me the potions to begin with, so that I could use them when there was no one around to wake me up. She's stopped giving them to me, because she feels I have this dream for a reason. She says I need to explore it. She doesn't understand. Drowning almost every night is bad enough, but I don't want to see the face...I don't want to know who he is.
Apparently, once a night is enough. I woke up from a dream, another nightmare, but I wasn't even on a ship in it. I wasn't gasping for breath when I woke up, but I don't know. I don't want to know. Shara insists I need to know, it's why my dreams insist on telling me whenever I don't take the potion. It's fine for her to say. To me, it's like summoning Sin by collecting fiends for the calling. I don't think I'm going to get any more sleep tonight.
--Renawyn
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