phoenix.one
Dreamwalker----original
"Oh, come on, Kim Jongin," Chanyeol had pleaded. "Don't act like a girl. What could possibly happen? It's just a dream. It can't hurt you."
He had been wrong, because he hadn't known.
Dreams were dangerous for those who didn't follow the rules.
Chanyeol had never understood that.
----copy
"What's up, Kai?" Chanyeol asked as he caught up to him on the school corridor.
Kai hated how he didn't even to bother to cover up that he wasn't the real him, but a shell with a monster inside. Unless Kai told him his real name out of his own free will, he wouldn't ever find out, and he knew.
He knew, and yet he threw the name 'Kai' at him like a weapon.
Because he also knew how much Kai minded.
Because it prove that he was a stranger in a familiar shape.
----power
"Don't tell anyone you meet in a dream your real name," Kai's grandfather had told him long before he understood how terrifying dreams could be.
"They can use it to hurt you. Forget your real name. If you refer to yourself in your mind, think of yourself as a completely different being."
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