[RPG] [BT][Rio] Delvin Anaris ~ Severed Dreams

[Timothy Collett]

Darkness...pain...a dim red fog...voices drift through, distant,  
anxious...then darkness again.

As the darkness fades, Delvin tries to move, but can't.  He pushes at  
his bed, attempting to get into a sitting position--then falls  
immediately back down, startled by a horrendous scream.  It takes him  
some time to realize that the scream comes from his own throat.

Not long after, darkness overtakes him once again.

Delvin wanders for some time on the borders between sleeping and  
waking...between life and death.  He sees strange things there: the  
sun and sword of Arelien...the sun blackened by an eclipse...a lion,  
bound and wounded by the thorns of a rosebush...a white bird, flying  
south...himself, dressed in blinding white...but the white drips  
away, revealing darkest black underneath.

Suddenly, everything disappears, as if a light were doused.  He is  
hanging in a formless void, surrounded by nothing but darkness--but  
this darkness is different than that which has gone before; there,  
there was simply oblivion, but here, he is here, looking into the  
darkness, trying to find the faintest glimmer of light.

At last, one appears...then another.  Two points of light in the  
darkness, far away.  He moves toward them--he knows not how--and  
eventually finds himself directly between them.  He turns, looking at  
each of them: one seems somehow high, while the other seems deep.  He  
looks long at the high one, before turning to gaze into the deep one.

All at once, the light hurtles toward him, piercing his eyes with its  
brilliance.

"Aah!" he cries out.  His eyes are open.  He is sitting up in his  
bed.  He gasps for several seconds, simply content to be once  
more...then memory comes flooding back, and anger twists his face.   
"Elia..." he growls.  He turns to the nearest healers' assistant.  "I  
want that backstabbing bitch to hang!"

--

"The only thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
  ~ Miles Naismith Vorkosigan

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