He always comes into nightmares, like a personal tormentor.A middle-aged girl. Pale skin, piercing eyes. A smile like a grin, giving a strange tenderness.
The autumn wind, permeated with icy breath, whipped at his face, forcing him to squeeze into his collar.The yellow-red leaves,like the fallen wings of butterflies,swirled in a whirlwind before lying down on the damp,cold ground. It was late afternoon,and the heavy gloom,the harbinger of a long night,filled everything with a dreary foreboding.I was walking home,my legs felt like lead,my body was shivering cold,not only from the autumn wind.
My dreams have become a nightmare.Not just unpleasant, but poignantly painful.They were all connected to her.With Maria.Her face, pale, haggard, with dark circles under her eyes, appeared in the most unexpected places.Sometimes I saw her in empty,abandoned houses, with empty eye sockets of windows looking at me with empty holes.Sometimes in a fog, thick and cold,like the breath of death.She didn't say anything,but her presence was unbearably heavy.
She didn't kill me in my sleep.She didn't attack. She just was.And that was enough to plunge me into endless terror.Her gaze penetrated right through me, as if she saw my every fear, my every secret pain,my every hidden vice.She knew me better than I knew myself.In one of the dreams, we were sitting at a table in an empty room. She did not touch the food,her pale face was calm, but there was an abyss of endless despair in her eyes.She just looked at me, and I felt like I was being consumed by her pain,her longing, her hopelessness.I tried to run away,but my legs wouldn't obey. I was trapped in this endless space forever.When I woke up, I felt squeezed out like a lemon.The weight of sleep weighed on me like liquid lead.Each awakening was like a slow, painful death.My days turned into a continuous chain of sleepless nights and foggy days,where Maria's ghost constantly reminded me of myself.And then one day,walking down the street, I saw her.How the hell is that possible?..Is this girl going to torture me in reality now?