[274] Sleep

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Challenge: [274] Sleep
Title: A New Life
Word Count: 341
Notes:  BbS spoilers for Aqua's story. I don't know if I followed the prompt very well, but this is what came to me. I hope it's good.

Every dream now is a nightmare, just as her reality had become. There's Darkness everywhere and monsters lurking. Her heart feels so heavy in her chest and as the tears stream out of her eyes and onto her cheeks, she feels as if she's going to die.

Aqua can't tell the difference between her dreams or reality anymore. It's all the same.

At times she dreams of happy things. Sometimes it's finding a way out, or how things used to be. This is when Aqua is at her happiest. But when she wakes up, she is most miserable.

The tears come harder then and the pain in her chest aches even more. She wishes for a better reality, and hopes for a way. A way out of this nightmare that she calls her life.

The days fade into weeks, and the weeks fade into months. She's not sure how long she's been here. She's not sure if she's alive, dead, or stuck in limbo. She's not sure if she's awake or dreaming because it's all the same.

All of it would be the same.

Trapped, is what it would feel like.

Aqua feels like a prisoner to her life. Once she finds a secure area and defeats the hoards of Heartless, which should keep them away for the next twenty minutes or so… because she needs rest, so desperately.

When was the last time she's slept?

Aqua lays her head down on a rock for support and covers herself by wrapping her very own arms around herself and closes her eyes, a single tear running down her cheek. Then the tears come streaming as her head increasingly begins to ache.

She wishes for a better life.

She cries herself to sleep.

Aqua wakes up screaming moments later, or maybe it was hours, because she dreamt that the Darkness devoured her, taking her for it's very own.

These demons haunt her and wish her harm, and all Aqua wants is for things to be the way they were again.

"I will fight."