Chapter 5: In Dreams He Claimed Me
I find myself in a strange library. The stone floors are damp and the air is humid. The frosted windows effuse a strange light from outside, and I swear I can see the shadows of fish every so often. Something here must surely hold the clue to this place, and the other strange events as of late.
A book only titled 'Pelagic Truth'. It's cover is wet and the pages seem crusted with salt, but somehow it calls to me. Could my answers wait inside?
An appendage emerges as I read a cryptic passage aloud. It seems to hang in the air, probing, waiting.
I touch the limb and my world twists. Something on the other side is at the edges of my mind, and it wants in. I must fight it. I must resist. I can't...
It is more powerful than I can understand, but I was a fool to resist in the first place. This is no danger. No threat. This is love made manifest, and I feel at peace. He is soon coming, and the Signs herald His arrival. I am safe in His embrace. I am Loved. I aM His VoICe. HE ONLY NEEDS TO BE ACCEPTED, AND ALL WILL BE WELL. THE OTHERS MUST COME TO LOVE HIM TOO. I WILL SEE THAT THEY LOVE HIM.
A jolt wakes me before I can become one with the creature. Before I can sink too low. I find myself in my bed, damp with sweat. Was it not real, then? I decide as I sit there alone it must truly be just a dream... And yet... the taste of salt lingers in my mouth.