Dreaming of Sanity

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Dru has been dreaming, as she always does. Normally images of her victims run through her head, taunting her, screaming at her. But tonight things are different. She is walking down a dark street, the stars shining brightly overhead. Across the street a young woman is walking, and Dru is enticed to follow. The girl is wearing a yellow dress, typical of the ones that Dru wore in her own lifetime. She has dark hair, curled into ringlets. She is pure, innocent. Dru can't see her face but she knows the girl will be beautiful.

Dru follows the girl as she walks down a dark alley. Her scent fills Dru's nose, like a strong perfume. The alley itself is quite short and the girl reaches the end- a dead end- quickly.

'I know you're there,' says the girl, not looking over her shoulder. 'I saw you coming.'

'You must have good eyesight Pet,' Dru replies softly, walking closer to the girl. She places one hand on her shoulder.

'Better than you know... Pet,' says the girl.

Undeterred, Dru morphs to vampire and spins the girl around-

and finds herself staring into her own face.

'Now we chAnGE,' says the Other-Dru in the voice of the Lady Del(erium) Lady Del(ight). And she shatters. The shards of her broken self cut herbodyherfaceherheadherheart. Dru-

wakes screaming.

And she feels the change. She knows the difference. She stops screaming and pushes her hair out of her face, presses her palms against her temples.

'I'm sane.'