Abyss
I let them be for now, knowing trying to come up with excuses to stay would only be detrimental to the both of us.
I glanced back at the end of the driveway and wondered if, the moment it was just them, he'd change his mind and end up in her talons once more.
I had to just trust him and hope he would call me once the coast was clear. I knew starting to let him in was going to be hard.
They say loving someone means trusting them, but I disagreed. I found in life that I was more than capable of caring for the wrong people, and people whom I did not trust. It wouldn't be far-fetched to say that was the case here.
I still wanted to learn to trust him; that meant I would need to give him chances.
Maybe I had a silly "I can fix him" sort of mentality, but I believed somewhere deep down that maybe if only Onyx had the right kind of support and care he could learn to control his powers.
A suspicion entered my mind briefly as I recalled the events of the previous weeks, but I forced myself to dismiss it.
I headed back to the water and situated myself in bed, staring at the spot he had laid for weeks, unresponsive. I deeply needed some respite and finally dozed off. Inside my dream, I finally encountered something I had many questions about.
"Long time no see," Mochi said, perched up on an imaginary dream cloud.
I stared at the strange figure. "You're back? Not just a figment of my imagination?" I asked, though I doubted the answer even if he said he was real. Still, the being nodded. "As real as a tokay gecko!" I looked at him funny. "Huh?" He laughed off my confusion. "Right, you're a sea creature. Sometimes I forget that."
I crumpled my forehead in my dream. "How do you know me?" It was a seemingly simple question for a being who seemed to know everything about me. I regarded him with heavy skepticism, stepping forward to threaten him.
My dream wasn't mine to control, however, as he just made every one of my weapons vanish.
I sighed. I was quick on the uptake to realize it would pose no use. "Are you intending to answer my inquiries before the day is done?" I asked him, slightly exasperated. He just swung his legs back and forth. "Oh, you sure are lively. Were you healed by your love?"
The question struck me as completely odd. What does that even mean? Onyx? "But Onyx didn't heal me if that is whom you're referring to," I said. At least, not lately.
"Hmmm," the voice said, and turned upside down to float closer. "Your head has been feeling much lighter has it not?"
The inquiry made me pause as I realized he was right. Over the last few weeks my emotions had been much more stable.
"That's why I haven't been able to visit you lately because..." he trailed off in his own speech, looking to the side. "Finish that sentence," I said, staring at him with an ominous warning in my eyes. "Nah," he said, shrugging. I swear I was this close to smacking the entity. "Then why are you even here?"
"Well, hey, don't be mean!" He said now pouting. Gosh, how was he so different from Onyx? Suddenly I was missing Onyx more now that I was stuck with this baboon. I hadn't even said it aloud when Mochi said, "Hey, I am cute! You love me!" In firm protest he stomped his foot down, making the dream scenery change to that of the gorgeous gardens of Onyx's home with the snowdrops.
He just sat there and watched as I witnessed a strange sight before me that I had no memory of. "Why do you like flowers?" A voice that came from a boy that looked exactly like me played out. It was as if I was watching myself in third person. "Because they remind me of you," the person that looked like Onyx said.
I couldn't understand the scene in front of me. I looked back to where Mochi was. "What is this?" I couldn't help but ask. Mochi merely replied, "You can't know everything yet. I already warned you. You didn't heed my warning and now the course of events are getting unpredictable."
I just looked at him, agape. "Aren't you basically just a ghost, Mochi?"
"I am more than that, though I don't remember everything. Hopefully this next scene should be enough for you to believe that I'm real now." He gestured his hand out, the scenery shifting ever so slightly as it distorted like a record player before coming into focus.
In front of me was Onyx and what looked like me yet again. "I am so ugly; why do you even like me? My appearance and everything. I'm so gloomy," my mirage said within the dream.
"Because to me you're like a beautiful snowdrop. You bloom even in the winter months, the cold, the dark. Yet you hold the softness within your depth like that of an abyss made of beautiful serenity. I don't know why you hate your edgy appearance so; it is the very beauty that cuts like a blade through the snow to rise as a victor. I like it more than any other," the voice belonging to Onyx said.
I scowled. "Since when would we ever say anything like this. How exactly is this information supposed to help me understand a whit of anything?"
Mochi regained his bubbly, eccentric personality again. "That is for you to find out yourself! From now on, please let your body accept me into your dreams. Don't use magick to guard against me. I really do only mean well. If you ignore me you'll regret it."
I shook my head, but he continued, "After all, I am just as important to you as your precious Onyx. Don't forget me."