The Woods: Dream Girl #2
I can hear her; she's close. I've been coming to this forest every night for the last week. I don't know why, but I'm into it. The woods have been a welcome break from civilization, but the fact that I can't seem to find the girl is so tantalizingly frustrating I'm about to lose my mind. I know she's here, but I have yet to actually SEE her. I'm running; moving quick, but trying to be as quiet as I can, towards the sound of her laughter. That laugh has taunted me for days, floating through these trees that look so familiar, I could swear I know this place from the real world, but I just can't quite place it. Oh well, no matter anyway. This isn't the real world, and I don't have to care about the details. Right now, there is only this chase. There is only the girl, and me, and the chase.
Slowing down to listen, to smell, to control my breathing. Why I have to do these things in a dream, dear reader, I do not know, but it's happening all the same. There! A twig snaps, some leaves rustle, and footsteps dart off to the right. I move ahead, angling to intercept her at the river. Somehow, I know there's a river ahead, and that she's going to have to come this way. So, I hunker down behind a tree in sight of the water and wait.
Chasing hasn't been working. Waiting isn't working either, but just as I'm about to give up, I hear her again. She's behind me, moving around towards the river. Time for a new strategy. I stand up and openly walk out towards the water. It's calm here, and deep enough to swim in. The waterfall nearby has carved out a rockbed pool and everything here is suddenly so idyllic. I climb up onto a boulder and move from rock to rock until I'm out in the middle of the pool, where I sit and watch the water. The calm dark surface shows me nothing but depth below its ripples. It's warm, humid, sunlight filters in through the tree branches, and I can hear her coming. She's quiet, but the rocks still shift under her feet as she nears the bank. I couldn't catch her, but this is my dream. She can come catch me.
Soft splashes make their way around my rock pile until at last, finally, I see her. Pale skin enshrouds a strong, toned body; nothing too extreme, but she definitely lives a very deliberately active life. As she steps through a ray of light, her sunset-colored hair flares up brightly in a light breeze that seems only to have come up for that specific effect. I love my dreams sometimes. She looks up at me on my flat boulder, and our eyes lock. Her face softens, just for a moment, and this jolt of emotion hits us. So much passes through in that connection: surprise, excitement, desire, and all of it in the end melts into playful, needy lust. Her face changes again, but this time, it's a wicked little smile with a knowledge behind it of what I'm going to do to her, and what she's going to put me through before she lets me.