Nightmares Rise by Mirren Hogan & Erin Yoshikawa

Author:Mirren Hogan & Erin Yoshikawa [Hogan, Mirren & Yoshikawa, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epub, Ebook, QuarkXPress
Publisher: Burning Willow Press, LLC
Published: 2017-04-05T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

Flynn gave Makani a quizzical look but sat in a small but plush chair that might once have been covered in velvet. The fabric was so worn and faded now it was hard to tell. He’d have had to guess at its original color as well, possibly pink with some kind of floral pattern.

Looking at Elsie, he had the strange feeling she knew just what they’d been through down at the waterfalls. She couldn’t have possibly known, but she was giving him a knowing look that made him want to shiver. He thought back to what Makani had said about it happening again. Maybe Elsie was a party to whatever happened before. Hopefully, she would have some answers.

Setting a trio of beers on the table, Elsie sat in a chair, and stubbed her cigarette in an ashtray. She leaned back and sighed, turning an antique lighter between her fingers.

“You saw something today, didn’t you? Something new?” Her gaze shifted from one to the other and back again, dark eyes intense.

“Yeah . . . well, new to us.” Makani took a beer and started guzzling.

She recounted the story of going to the swimming hole, and what they had seen and done. The beer was long gone by the time she finished the whole thing.

“So . . . what do you think?”

Elsie lit another cigarette and sat in thought for a moment. She looked at the young people in front of her, and nodded. “I think . . . this time, you won’t be able to take a pill and make this go away. The dreams are bigger, now.”

Flynn looked at them both expectantly. Makani shifted in her seat and avoided looking at him. Elsie simply passed her bottle to her sister’s granddaughter and shook her head.

“Ok, can someone please tell me what’s going on?” he asked finally. “This has happened before. What have dreams got to do with it? Two people can’t share a dream or a hallucination.”

“That’s not true. You come from Australia, right? The aboriginal people believe in the Dreaming. The gods came together and made the land and all its contents with dreams. Even here, gods and goddesses created many things that way. If mankind is made in their image, why can’t we bring our dreams into the waking world, too?” Elsie blew smoke into the air, where it swirled and looped around itself like a toxic ghost.

“When Makani was small, she would have nightmares. They were monsters from the scary stories the children tell each other. The Green Lady, Bloody Mary, Night Marchers, the Faceless Lady . . . all those things terrified her. She insisted they were real. Makani wouldn’t sleep for weeks, wouldn’t eat. She insisted that the monsters in her dreams were coming for her family. That at night, they walked through the house, watching everyone. So she stayed awake to make sure they were safe.

“Finally, Makani ran away from home and hid out at her swimming hole for three days. When her father found her, she was bus’up, all scratched and bloody.

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