Dream

For no reason at all, the number of wanderers in Linkon city had skyrocketed recently. As a hunter of the Linkon Hunters Association, you had to work late into the night to get home every day.
Upon entering the house, you saw Rafayel lying on the sofa in the living room. Your usual snacks and a glass of warm milk were on the table in the living room.
“You’re back, Miss Bouncer.” Rafayel opened the eyes of sleep, blue and rose between the eye waved.
“I’m so tired! I have to deal with so many wanderers every day.” You threw your bag to the sofa at will, and you jumped into Rafayel’s arms. The air in early spring was still cool. Rafayel bent your legs into his arms, and then put the blanket over your two bodies, and finally did not forget to tighten the gap between your legs and the blanket.
“Ah, Rafayel, you know. A delicious seafood hot pot has opened near the headquarters of my association. Shall we try it next time? The homemade bubble tea in the shop is delicious and unlimited.” You played with Rafayel’s slender fingers and said, “Our association has recently entered a group of new people, Tao Tao and I are responsible for being their instructors.” These young people are so energetic, they don’t know what tasks they will face in the future, ha ha…” You talked a lot again and again, until your eyelids began to fight, and the hand that circled Rafayel’s palm slowly stopped moving.
“Sleep when you’re sleepy. I’m right here. I’m not going anywhere.” Rafayel looked at you gently with his eyes down, patting your back rhythmically with one hand, humming a lullaby-like tune. You hold Rafayel’s coat corner, sinking in the slightly blue moonlight to sleep…
“Hey, wake up, it’s getting light soon. The Sea God’s ceremony is about to begin. Don’t go back to sleep.” You slowly opened your eyes and saw an unusually beautiful face enlarged in front of you. “Wow, finally woke up, how late did you sleep last night?” The blue-haired girl frowned and seemed angry.
“Zao, come out and help arrange the shells here!” There was a call outside the room.
“Okay, I’m coming out!” The girl replied. Zao turned to you and said, “I’ll take you to the city gate before the Sea God’s ceremony begins. Wait here until then, and don’t fall asleep again!”
With the click of the door, you were alone in the room. You wanted to rub your eyes, but you realized that this body was not under your control, but you could actually feel what this body saw and felt. You looked at yourself and saw that you were wearing a blue and white costume, which was set with many fine colored jewels, strung together with gold wires. Although it was a very strange style, you could tell that it was a dress that would be worn on an important occasion. You also wore a veil on your head, which was very long but very light. You looked at the room through the thin veil on your head and saw that it was covered with coral and that the bed was made of seashells. When you looked out the window, you could see swarms of deep-sea fish, free-floating jellyfish and occasionally passing crabs. It was incredible, but you could bet you’re at the bottom of the ocean right now. You thought of the legend of Lemuria in Linkon City, the extraordinarily beautiful girl named Zao who had just gone out, and the Sea God’s ceremony she spoke of.
Is it a dream? Otherwise, how did you come to Lemuria, the hometown of Rafayel? Yes, Rafayel confessed his Lemurian identity to you before your relationship was established. You did not appear shocked by this, because in your daily lives with Rafayel you had detected signs that he is not human. You thought to yourself. What does a sea god memorial have to do with you? There was nothing you could do about it now, but waited.
At dawn, Zao took you to the most prominent place at the city gate. You looked at this underwater city known as the “Whale Fall City” and the layered Lemurians around it. You coudn’t process so much information at once, so you just gawked.
“Why are you hiding so far back? What if Sea God can’t find you later?” Zao pulled me forward, and then excitedly looked ahead and said, “Sea God is coming!”
The crowd cheered, you looked up, and a huge shadow was moving across Whale Fall City. Facing the rising sun, you saw that it was a beautiful and sacred sea beast, like a whale, but with wings stretching like a bird. The young Sea God sat on its back passing by his pious people and finally stopped right in front of you.
The Sea God descended slowly from the sea beast, came to you, and lifted your veil. When you saw what the Sea God looks like, your heart quaked.
Rafayel was the God of the sea!
At this time, Rafayel painted a beautiful totem with special materials on his body, and looked at you with a gentle ******ile, as if he had been waiting for this moment for a long time. You looked at him and forgot to breathe. The crowd cleared a way for you, and wherever you went, every young child blessed you in old Limurian. They threw beautiful coral branches behind you and watched you come to the door of a palace. From your previous conversations with Zao, you assumed that this place was a temple. As you walked toward the temple, the doors of the temple slowly closed, and the sounds of prayer gradually merged into a chant outside.
There was a flickering flame in the center of the temple, and it seemed to be dying out. You looked at the flame, your heart beat uneasily, “plop plop” louder and louder. You felt more and more suffocated and your heart seemed to be beating out of your chest.
Rafayel sensed your uneasiness and turned to look at you and said, “What’s wrong? Is everything all right?”
You forbore and said to Rafayel, “I’m fine…” At the end of the speech, you heard the sound of skin splitting, and with great pain, a huge blood hole appeared in your chest. Your heart flied out of your chest uncontrollably, drawn by the flame to merge together.
‘How can this be? Rafayel looked at all this in horror, panic unceasingly.
At this moment, the Sea God book in the corner of the temple lit up the blue light, and Rafayel looked at the stone tablet engraved with the looming Lemurian language. After seeing the content of the Sea God book, Rafayel’s face was full of despair, and his fists were tightly held together: “The original Sea God sacrifice believers, let her give her heart to continue the fire of Lemuria. I was deceived from the beginning…”
You fell backwards uncontrollably.
Rafayel firmly supported your back, and you two sat on the ground snuggled up to each other. At this time, the sea was dark and silent, as if the lively scene of the Sea God’s ceremony had not happened. Only the fire in the center of the temple and your heart glimmered. The flame flung its teeth, stucks out its tongue and drew your heart close to it.
“Rafayel…” Your body spoke and trembled. In this body, you recalled the dream you had the night before the Sea God’s Ceremony. In the dream, your heart was also cut open in this way, and the pain was vivid, overlapping with the scene of the matter. “If it is necessary to sacrifice the believers in order to continue the life of Lemuria, I am willing… After all, if it weren’t for you, I would have died the day I was thrown into the sea by the apostles of Sea God… If it were not for you, I would never have experienced the peace and happiness of life in Whale Fall City that I have never experienced before… I am willing…” Your voice was getting ******aller and ******aller, and even if you wanted to say something, you couldn’t say it because you were bleeding too much.
Rafayel looked down at you and listened to what you said quietly. He looked at you with his blue and rose-colored eyes and said softly, “What kind of sea god is he if he can’t protect his followers…” Your vision was slowly blurred, and in a trance, you saw Rafayel using the dagger you gave him to cut his chest and took out his heart.
No…No… You screamed in your heart, but your body couldn’t move.
As Rafayel put the heart into your chest, you felt a heat flow into your body, and the pain on your body went away.
“Don’t be afraid, I’m here for you.” Rafayel said to you.
You felt more and more sleepy, but two lines of tears couldn’t help spilling out of your eyes. Rafayel wrapped you in his arms, patting your back rhythmically with his palms and singing a Lemurian nursery rhyme similar to the lullaby. You fell asleep in great sorrow…
The sound of slapping your back became clearer and clearer in your ears, and you cried out of sleep to find yourself in a warm embrace.
“What nightmare has my Miss Hunter been having, crying so hard?” Rafayel looked down at you, holding your face in his hands and kissing the tears out of your eyes.
“Rafayel, I had a dream. In my dream, you were the Sea God of Lemuria. On the day of the Sea God’s Ceremony, I had my heart cut out, and you gave me your own heart… But is it really the case?”
After hearing your words, Rafayel froze for a moment and then said, “Baby, your dream is very unrestrained and can be used as inspiration for my future painting creation, haha…”
And Rafayel’s flustered eyes made you sure that what you had dreamed must be something that really happened, after all, your heart was throbbing until now. You got up from Rafayels arms angrily: “If you don’t tell me the truth, I will hold my breath until you confess to me!”
After a long silence, Rafayel had to give in: “Well, it seems that you have remembered something,” he took your hand and let you lie slowly on his side, “This is a long story, about you and me… Do you really want to hear it?”
You nodded earnestly.
That night, Rafayel told you a lot of stories about your past. You as a sacrifice, as a princess, as a college student. You also learned about Rafayel as a Sea God, Rafayel as a assassin, and Rafayel as a professor. All of your identities are woven together to make up your story.
You will also have many identities in the future, you think in your mind. But the difference is that these stories are no longer painful, but filled with happiness.