A ruckus

Hearing a loud amount of talking and some arguing you groaned softly in your sleep as the train chugged along before the door to your booth slid open. Ignoring the person who wished to disturb you you sat up no longer lying down to see the busty, blonde haired girl who bothered you before at the academy Harmony I think was her name. The girl looked angry and didn’t say a word as she sat opposite of you staring at you angrily.

Nathan yawned before adjusting his coat and laying back down with his back to the girl. She hmphed in response looking away from Nathan who was beginning to drift off to sleep once more when she spoke. “I didn’t know they allowed street scum onto the train I guess you just stole a ticket from someone.”

Nathan instead chose to respond with another yawn before snuggling in closer to the cushioned booth wall. Before Harmony continued speaking. “Then again I still don’t know how trash like you even made it into the academy you probably can’t even you form a psionic link from what I heard or brew potions.”

In response Nathan simply lifted up his right hand while still facing the cushion and proceeded to give Harmony the bird before snuggling back into his sleep. Indignant and even more angry Harmony decided she had finally had enough and taking her wand began quietly muttering the incantations for a psionic link she was going to give BlackThorn a piece of her mind little did she know how much she would regret her choice as she began forming a psionic link with Nathan.

As Nathan drifted off to sleep Harmony entered Nathan’s mind expecting to find a boy living out his dreams like most boys getting drunk off his ass, having a harem full of women, being rich and happy instead what Harmony found was that she had wandered into the twilight the space between the dreamworld and reality the place where the mind transitioned from reality to the dreamworld the twilight was also the place where suppressed or dark memories of a person often resided.

Looking around her Harmony was scared there were bodies everywhere people lying in the streets dead, with others sick or dying, the stench of trash and human waste was so strong her eyes began watering, looking around she could see people shivering against the winter snow, children scavenging for scraps of fuel for the fire. While adults tried tended to the slowly dying barrel fire.

Finally she saw him Nathan BlackThorn he sat in ragged clothes much different from what he wore his body dirty with soot and ash, his body covered in sores and bruises, before she made eye contact with him and then Harmony Ashcroft froze in fear.

The boy’s blue and green eye stared back at her as she made eye contact with Harmony’s soft brown eyes she flinched at the coldness of his glare reminding her of her father’s glares whenever she failed to meet her goals. Nathan seemed to stare into her very soul causing Harmony take a step back in fear.

“You shouldn’t be here princess the streets are no place for pampered air-heads like yourself.” Nathan said as the atmosphere shifted and soon Harmony saw Nathan disappear in a flock of crows looking around she saw a scene of Nathan being beaten and kicked by the constables, she flinched as she watched the constables beat him with their black billy clubs. She could feel every strike, every bruise forming on her own body as they hit Nathan’s body. Harmony fell to her knees crying as she felt her ribs cry out in pain as she felt jackboots dig into her chest repeatedly and with no mercy. But then it stopped as fast and suddenly as it appeared it all stopped.

Looking up she saw a small body curled into the fetal position as the two officers spat on the boy before taking their leave. Leaving the boy on the cold hard winter as the boy began coughing up blood onto the white snow covered cobblestone ground. Seeing her chance to escape Harmony cut the psionic link quickly returning to her body.

Looking up Harmony realized she was crying her cheeks wet with tears. Wiping the tears into her sleeve she looked across from her to the boy who laid opposite of her in the booth sound asleep with seemingly a care in the world. Harmony held her knees to her face silently crying as she recalled everything she had witnessed in Nathan’s memories shuddering and wondering what he had gone through.

Needless to say the train ride was quiet the rest of the way as Nathan slept peacefully while Harmony sat wide awake crying silently terrified beyond all measure.