What's Your Nightmare?

Dakshana and Minka watched Chadstone vanish again.

“He’s right,” Dakshana said grimly. “We should carry on and be glad we never fully knew your nightmare.”

“What power there must be in words, that the destruction of a word’s image can bring a soul’s death,” Minka said. She held out her hand. “You all right?”

Dakshana pressed a hand to her mouth and felt the ghost of a kiss. “I’m fine. Let’s keep moving. We’ll make it to the center - he can’t keep us.”

As the words passed her lips, the stone hallway melted away.

Dakshana said, “Whose nightmare is next?”