Nightmares Reimagined

[Nesrin Aziz]

Something pulled, and Nesrin’s carefully laid plans unravelled as she was wrenched free of another’s dream. She blinked among the sudden sea of people, immediately uncomfortable, and tried to shrink her way backwards. The tall man beside her muttered a string of Scandinavian curses, and Nesrin narrowed her eyes for no reason she could discern beyond a frank desire to remove herself from the vicinity. Only she couldn’t. The child beside her began to cry and reached for Nesrin’s hand when she beheld the great winged demon at their centre. But in the next breath they were all laid low upon the ground, bowed like servants.