...No

"Chloe...I..."

Even as you try to speak, it almost seems like she doesn't even hear you, and as the scene replays you begin to feel numb to it all. Nothing is changing, no matter how angry or depressed you become about it. As the dream resets again, you turn around and head back out the door, your face expressionless.

"Bravo, wanderer..."

You turn to see the shadowy figure...staring? How does something stare with no true eyes?

"You did commendably well. Most mortals don't even have the power to take a single step within their own dreams, let alone speak."

At that, the anger finally boils over and you try to **** the shadowy figure, only for it to dissolve upon your first strike and appear behind you.

"Mortal, you know that this solves noth-"

"I DON'T CARE WHAT IT SOLVES, JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!" You cry out, continuing to try and attack it. With every blow you "land" it just morphs around the fist or kick and appears elsewhere, almost taunting you with how powerless you truly are against this being.

The attempted **** continues until your legs give out, leaving you kneeling before it, tears welling in your eyes. The figure looms over you, and as you look up, you swear for a brief moment that a glimmer of a smile appears on his...her...it's face.

"Wanderer...you should understand by now that you have the potential to be better than what you are-"

"Save it!" You yell, holding back tears, "I'm not some chosen one to save the world! I'm just...I'm myself! I'll always be myself!" Your voice gets hoarse from the screaming, lowering down now to barely a whisper. The shadowy figure stands tall over you.

"No, you're NOT some chosen one. In fact...you are only here because of a spectral lottery. Quite frankly, if I had not seen what you could do within that dream, I would have this power and knowledge stripped of you and return you to what you were doing with your life...but that wouldn't be quite as entertaining." The specter says, its words confusing you. Entertaining? What the hell is entertaining about you going through all of that suffering!?

"Wanderer, I will give you a simple choice: you may either be wiped clean of all this knowledge and never remember that this day had even existed beyond what you had done before falling asleep...or you may choose to keep this power and use it in any way you want. I do not ask of you to do good with it, I do not even ask of you to help yourself with it. I am simply the one who has given you this offer."

As you look up towards the spectral being, you feel the tears pouring down your eyes as you struggle to get to your feet. Finally finding a vertical basis, albeit a rather shaky one, you note that the figure is looking much more human-esque than before. Not needing to know, you think on the offer, before the scene replays in your mind once more. The rejection, the disappointment, the heartbreak, the anguish...it could all be fixed. Your life could become what it should be. What it DESERVES to be.

With your tears subsiding, you look to the being. "I accept your offer."

"Good...now then, wanderer, it is time for you to awaken. Your true life has begun many, many years ago, but it is time for a new beginning." It speaks once more, and as you see the morning light start cracking through your eyes, you swear you see it smile once again.....and see it joined by a pair of soft, emerald green eyes.