A Dream of Trees by Samantha Sotto

Author:Samantha Sotto [Sotto, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stripe&Yellow
Published: 2019-07-28T04:00:00+00:00

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A Storm

Raindrops lashed at the large greenhouse’s roof and walls. Wind howled. Lightning streaked over the sky, illuminating a forest of tiny trees. Thunder cracked twice. Aiden glanced around the tiered rows of bonsais, his eyes wide. “Is this your greenhouse?”

“It is,” Shiori said, stepping through the doorway. She stared up at the storm churning above them, her forehead creased.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s night. And raining. This hasn’t happened before. I’ve never visited this place at night. Each time the door allows me to visit the greenhouse, the weather is always clear and-” Shiori stiffened, pointing to the far side of the greenhouse. “Aiden, look.”

Aiden narrowed his eyes, peering through the rain. Light glowed from behind the greenhouse’s clear walls. “Where’s that light coming from?”

“My potting shed.”

Thunder clapped two times as a shadow moved across the shed’s window.

Aiden gasped. “There’s someone inside it.”

“And I know who it is.”

“What? How?”

“Listen.”

The sky rumbled over her voice. And then once more.

“Did you hear it?”

“The thunder? What about it?”

“It cracked twice.”

“So?”

“It’s going to do it again in five…four…three…two…”

“There’s a storm. There’s nothing unusual about thunder.”

“One.”

Thunder roared in quick succession, the sound uncannily identical to the pair of thunderclaps that came before it.

Aiden gaped at her. “How did you-”

“I’ve been on this side of the door a long time and the only time it ever rained was the night I woke up in a shed, soaked to the bone. And there was something different about the storm. There was a pattern to it. This pattern. The storm was in a loop.” Shiori fixed her eyes on the light outside. “You can see the light from the shed, because earlier this evening, I switched it on. This isn’t the present, Aiden. This is my first night here.”

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