This would be my second kiss.My first kiss was surprisingly with Leila.Yes, it was a mistake and she scolded me immediately after for taking advantage of her lips when she pecked my cheek but who am I to ignore the callings of nature?Ahem, in any case, no-one was able to speak for almost a minute with silence establishing a firm hold on our surrounding.Just as I was about to speak up, I heard footsteps causing me to glance in a certain direction.Isabella seemed to hear it as well as she turned with me, her eyes fixated on a spot not too far away.As I held my breath, wondering if it was the tar monster, the origin of the footsteps revealed itself or should I say… herself.It was Leah, her white hair making for quite a spectacle in the fading night.She had a surprised look on her face as she stared at I and Isabella, a suspicious tint in her eyes.As I met her gaze, the feeling that I had done something wrong came up again and I was left, confused.Leah and I are definitely not a

“If we head back, we could fight against the tar monster if it came back… actually this is me being optimistic. For all we know, a more terrifying creature might show up to pick up the next meals for the Dreamer.“What days you that our meager imaginative attempts at fighting back would be able to survive the onslaught of a new monster or maybe of a new and improved tar monster?“Then it kills more of us and then the Dreamer keeps on harvesting energy until it’s strong enough to erase our memories and turn us into real animals that would even consider sacrificing our own in a bid to serve some crazy deity.” I ensured my voice conveyed my true emotions.It sounded like I was talking shit but it definitely wasn’t. These are possible ways the Dreamer could manipulate us into becoming docile creatures waiting for death.I and Isabella had spoken about something like that during our time last night.This wasn’t the time to cover up the truth.No.Lies would only cause them to believe false

The moment the thing’s eye opened, it sent a shiver down my spine.The sight was enough to make my vomit but the best I could do was wretch with discomfort and the others were barely any better in their reactions.It's single eye was the whole portion of the thing’s bulbous body.Red veins lined it and a red pupil stares at us, slowly observing us.My heart palpitated at the sight.What was it?It was clearly an Otherworldly but I still had to ask what it was.Just then it moved.First it looked at me, then moved to Reginald and then to Lincoln and then to Leah and finally rested on Isabella.While it’s gaze was on me, it felt like it was looking through my everything, assessing me.It was enough to send shivers down my spine.Just like that, the silent staring contest continued with no-one daring to move.Well, if we don’t add the tentacles wiggling about like disgusting worms.After almost an eternity passed, obviously an exaggeration, it attacked.It’s tentacles shot towards us, mo

(Daryl’s POV)It wasn’t too long ago that I left them.The terror I felt after experiencing the crevice and the wall of fog was too much for me to bare.I could have collapsed mentally if I hadn’t left that place.Yeah, they might call me a coward.A betrayer for not going ahead but who could blame me?Unlike those talented ones, I have nothing.That fog clearly held death for us so why would I leave the comfort of the valley to attempt that crevice?Isn’t that the same as suicide?I might die here but… at least it won’t be painful.I won’t have to scream and shout out in agony.I could just close my eyes and die.Yeah, that’s better than going into that crevice.I hate it.I hate that I have to make such a decision.They might say that as a cadet, I was bound to face Otherworldly but who said I wanted to face them?The only reason I entered the academy was because of my mother.She had made a deal with a certain high ranking member of one of the 12 Great families.After ravishing her

(Daryl’s POV )EaahhhYet another blood curdling cry rang out as I kept running.How many would that make it now?Five?... Six?I couldn’t be sure.What I knew however was that for each scream that rang out, it meant yet another cadet had fallen into the hands of what used to be our fellow cadets, which had now turned into tar monsters that hunted us.The Dream was indeed a disgusting creature.After all, why couldn’t it attack us by itself or even use other creatures to attack us?Didn’t they say that the Dreamer could manifest other Otherworldly lower than it in ranking into it’s Nightmares?So why didn’t it do that, instead, the fucking bastard decided to use our own friends to hunt us down.It was most likely as a gag.A joke.Not only did it reveal to us that we were fools to think that we had figured it out.That we had been playing into the palm of it’s hands all this time.It also decided to show us our futile our attempt to escape was.This is so pathetic, so freaking patheti