The bed was soft as Leon lay flat on his back, staring at the ceiling while silence pressed hard on his skin.
Lily's welcoming smile resurfaced in Leon's mind as sleep slowly swallowed him. He giggled in his sleep.
In a blink, heat blasted across his skin as the memory of Basalt Mountain forced its way into his dream.
Black-red vapor rolled over the ground. Longwei stood ahead of him, smiling.
"No!" Leon's voice shot up from his dream and blasted through his room. But the silence that whirled around him swallowed it before anyone could hear. Yet Min-seo felt the walls vibrating strangely in her room.
"What was that?" She tried tapping on Min-ji's door, hoping to wake her, but Min-ji was already deep in a dream where she and Leon had borne a bouncing baby boy, where Lily was her pet.
Back in Leon's room, the stands of his bed scraped the floor harshly, igniting tiny sparks as Leon's body kept thrashing roughly on it.
