My dreams are full of walking for infinite distances. The sun seemed to circle me in cycles in the span of minutes. The days were short and nights even shorter and I was in the middle of it, unyielding. The sun set was short as a blink of an eye before the skies turned dark but the colors were more vivid, some I can’t even recognize.

Leo was in my dream too, when he walked up to me the days and nights stopped. He doesn’t say anything and becomes blurry in some moments. Our kiss plays out in my mind, his cool hand drying my tears and warm lips melting with mine. “I’m sorry” he says before his dark brown eyes turned sliver and hands tightened around my neck.

I couldn’t wake up, a pressure built up in my head seeking any crevice to escape. “I…” Behind Leo, or who I think is Leo are deer, alive walking nonchalantly oblivious of our presence.

“Why…” I couldn’t close my eyes, this entity made sure I would see its eyes before I die. Just when I think my head would explode, I woke to voices. I jump from one dream to the next.

“Fortunately, she will still have her vision.” The next dream did not have a chance to end before I awoke, all I saw was light, four of them in one room. A figure looms over my lying form again. I didn’t panic but I made sure her eyes are not silver.

I checked my body and the injuries I may have sustained were not that bad. I sit up, my head feeling very light. “Danbi,” The female clad in a white coat gives mother a warning look and mother pauses letting the doctor check up on the machines beside me.

My body felt light as well, not a speck of fatigue weighing me down. I could float to the ceiling if possible. The doctor leaves, another human in white trailing behind her.

“Danbi, can you see me?” I nod, expecting to regret the movement but dizziness did not come.

“Leo?” Mother urges me to lie back but I insist and lower my feet to the cool tile floor. “I have to see—“ I stop myself, Leo’s mad at me. Why would I need to see him?

“Let’s go home.” Mother says with finality that I couldn’t respond. She collects our things and slips in my shoes. I tie them on my own but not without mother’s concerned gaze enveloping me until I finish.

Father was waiting for us, looking disheveled in his uniform a shadow of stubble formed on his chin. He opens his arms once he sees us and I hesitantly walk into the hug. Father escorts us home and leaves for work at once.

I felt so foolish, only when I walked into my room past the mirror did I see my head bandaged up, the white cloth wrapped around my head. I unwrapped my head, checking the small nick on my temple. The wound is clean but it’s not healing rapidly but no matter, I have to make sure Leo’s fine. I have to.

 I didn’t have time to change my clothes or check up on mother, I slip out of my window and pace the cracked pavement beneath me. I duck when I pass the kitchen windows, my heart beating surprisingly slow.

Even with a calm heart I breathe in deeply for good measure and approach the main road. My eyes circle the perimeter and make sure no god or entity will play with me this time. I guard my body with an invisible security and I straighten, walking calmly to Leo’s.

“This is your…” A light, airy voice stops me. I look behind cautiously and bend an inch. The voice didn’t repeat but the first time I heard it, it was so airy that the words almost didn’t form completely.

My feet were quick, I want to leave the place already. I don’t want to be captured again. I crash into a body and she flies while the momentum of my body and sends me flying forward almost stepping over the one I crashed into.

She cries out in pain and curse loud enough for me to hear. I was bowing to apologize when she gasps. “Ya! Danbi.” Her tone stretches out into a whine.  “Why’d you run into me like that?” She gets her hands under her and then her feet.

“I’m sorry.” I stood beside her awkwardly, not knowing where to put my arms.

We stood around quietly like that for a few seconds. She’s so thin, I hope she isn’t in much pain. My feet couldn’t stay rooted, so did my eyes and my arms kept swinging by my sides on their own. 

“Let’s go?” She’s making me nervous even more so as she dragged me away from my destination, arms clutched around mine.

I pull away from her and glare, my eyebrows so scrunched up that I can feel the tension on my forehead. “I can’t go. I’m sorry.” I turn around without hesitation and proceed to walk.

“Danbi! Please come with me.” I glance back just in time to see her pushing up her glasses and wetting her lips. She’s shaking, her eyes dark behind the thick frames.

I frown but answer "yes" letting the time drag before I agree to come with her and before I could regret my decision, we’re already walking to the bus stop.

My body’s tired of my constant movement, fidgeting. I right myself only to return fidgeting after minutes of staying still. This is your… my what? My mission? My task? Test? What?