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.
There she goes again; kicking up water as she tears off towards the bank, sunset hair trailing as she looks back and smirks as I start to follow. I leap from rock to rock, not letting her leave my sight this time as we dash off towards the woods. Trees start to flash past us; nothing in my sight but flesh and greenery, and those eyes. Flashes of a wild soul above the exultation of exertion, taunting me in my increasing need to overtake her. She's not getting away this time; she doesn't want to, but we'll both be damned if it's not going to be a chase. She ducks under branches and tears through undergrowth, right and left, over rocks and logs and past startled animals. We run for an eternity, and an instant; a whole saga of pursuit flashing through my sleeping mind as I chase my feral dream girl through the manifested wilderness of my own subconscious machinations.
Finally, she stumbles. It wasn't on purpose; just an inevitable mistake, and I'm on her. I take her by the upper arm while she's off balance and spin her around, righting her body as she faces me, our eyes locking again as I slow us. Heavy breathing fills our ears as I firmly but not harshly press her back to a tree and bring my face to her neck, teeth finding that hollow just above the point where it meets the shoulder and sinking in slowly, suction locking my mouth onto her flesh. The exertion causes me to bite harder than I usually would, and the taste of her skin; salty and earthy, combined with her uncontrolled gasping and wriggling at the feel of my teeth, drives me even wilder with my need for her.
I pull back to find her gasping, desperate face, looking equal parts conflicted and aroused. The chase wasn't enough for her. She needs to be defeated, not just run down. So be it. I smile into her eyes and back away from the tree, releasing her and spreading my arms in offer of challenge or escape. The most delightedly raw grin spreads across her face as she rushes straight at me, moving with recognizable skill, ready to wrestle and eager to find out if I have what it takes to subdue her. She seems fairly confident that she has a shot at out-wrestling me, and for a very brief time, I'm willing to acknowledge that possibility, even in my own dream. Who knows, even losing to this particular opponent might even be fun. Perhaps you may be able to relate to that sentiment, dear reader?