Thu 6th Jan 2022 02:50

No More Dreams

by Hildegard

I haven’t had any dreams since arriving at Ioth Academy. “If you can’t dream, there’s less chance you’ll cause mischief.” It was part of the deal I made with Untermauler to let me in. Funny, the next time I met him was when I blew a hole through the Great Hall.
 
Wanting to learn and meet new friends like Dubby wasn’t good enough, so I told him I wanted to grow stronger in ways my tribe didn’t value: Artifice. When you can have access to infinite amounts of Dawn energy through dreamers, why bother with building silly contraptions? That’s something for lesser beings. I didn’t have many useful skills, but I could sew and I knew Untermauler was some famous war guy, so I challenged him that I’ll find a way to make myself useful without dream magic. No easy warlock route. I’ll build my way to join him in the tower of war. It worked.
 
I don’t think I miss it, dreaming. Sometimes, I wonder what I would have become, if I still could. Probably a monster, but that could happen regardless, so not gonna worry about it.