Failure to draw

"Draw your sword, Runt!" A deep voice barks at me I can hear the venom he puts into saying runt, I open my eyes to find myself standing in the centre of a circle drawn into the mud beneath me. There is a crowd gathered around the circle, a crowd of orcs, I scan the crowd trying to find Quinara amidst the green faces but I cannot see her.

"I told you to draw your weapon runt!" The voice shouts again drawing my gaze forward however unlike when I had opened my eyes at first I was no longer alone in this circle, a orc was standing before me. The orc was huge roughly seven and a half feet tall, far taller than Quinara, his face was adorned with a jet black beard matching his hair that was tied in a braid. His arms where adorned with scars leaving stripes of white on his thick muscular green arms, the orc looked at me as if my very existence was an insult to him, his pale milk white eyes staring me down. The last and most terrifying aspect was the axe the orc held, single bladed with a serrated edge on the axe head, the belly of the axe adorned with trophies, teeth from various animals, other orcs and a collection of human teeth all tied around the weapons body above the handle. This was the kind of orc I had envisioned in my nightmares as a child.

"I won't ask again" the orc says coldly, his scowl growing, I was frozen in place unable to move an inch. Since I couldn't move I call for help "QUIN-" my **** cry for help is cut short as the orc swings his axe colliding the blade to my neck.

"AHHHHHH" I scream jolting upright in fear, my body covered in sweat, I glance around the darkened room my eyes struggling to make out the details. "Wha- runt are you ok?" I hear a groggy Quinara ask from behind me, it was clear my outburst had woken her up too. "I'm sorry.... Just a bad dream" I apologise rubbing my eyes before lying back into her embrace once more, "you wanna talk about it?" Quinara asks

"No it's just a stupid dream, don't worry about it" I reply, part of me wanted to tell her but I didn't know how well she would take me having a nightmare about orcs, especially after our first night together in our new dynamic. "Ok if you're sure runt" Quinara says readjusting herself to get comfortable, I lay there in silence till Quinara's snoring begins anew as she gets back to sleep. I lie awake still for a while, my heart still pounding with the adrenaline rush from the nightmare and my head spinning as I tried to make sense of what exactly brought this on; this was my second nightmare in the span of less than a week. Eventually sleep takes me once again but I feel no less afraid after what I saw.