IT STARTED WITH A THUNDEROUS EXPLOSION. MY EYES grew wide with fear as the searing tide of conflagration rose and spread rapidly in all directions, threatening to consume us. Blistering tendrils of flame anxiously clutched for my feet as I ascended into the night sky just outside the reach of the infernal blaze.
She was safe now. Monica’s once tense grasp was now relaxed as we cut through the icy air and ascended into the ebony heavens above. The dream had returned. As I carried her through the frozen, midnight sky, I once more hoped that love would find its place upon her face. I was once again disappointed as the apex of my ascension revealed the face of a person that knew not the meaning of love. Her eyes burned with a passionate revulsion as she beckoned for me to let her go. But what had I done to deserve such discontent? What would drive the love of my life to cast away her only hope of salvation in order to rid herself of me?
There were mountains of questions without as much as a crumb of an answer. Perhaps it was time for me to give in to fate. There was no use fighting that which I could not control. I took a deep breath as I prepared to let go of her for the last time. Time seemed to stand still as I finally released her. We both floated in the air for what seemed to be an eternity before she finally began her decent.