A lancing pain pierces his heart at the sight of her tears. As the stallion approaches, he is the only one in the entire dream that seems real. His very presence pushes Draygan away into the ether. He yells back at Ana. "I promise to find you!" his words were muffled. He is unsure if she hears them or not. He feels everything slip away.
Waking up, he gasps for air, drawing in a sharp, cold breath. A single tear of blood slips down his face and splashes onto the snow below. Why was he crying?
The dream comes back to him, causing him to stumble from the wall on which he still leaned. Dazed, he lets the dream wash over him.
Nothing in his world would ever be complete until he found the mare from his Winter Masquerade dream.
"Anastasia," he says out loud, to brand the name into his mind, lest he forget. As dreams often drift from memory upon waking. He vowed never to forget her.
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