Summary: Dakota was left blind at a young age after a spontaneous fire incident. Now an expert martial artist and exceptionally intelligent youth, he has found his way around his disability after many years in the dark and discovered a special ability that showed him the light.

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Fire

Chapter One

Part 1

He didn’t understand why if he was blind why in his dreams the pictures were so… real, nor why he dreams of her. His dreams were always the same. Always about a cadaver of a women laying on her death bed, icy blue eyes fixed to her bedside window – the window a large, square frame with an arcing top.

Her cheeks are hollow and covered only in a thin, pale layer of skin. Frail, thin twigs of arms resting at her sides. Her eyes would blink slowly, tiredly. Chest would rise and fall at long drawn out paces.

In his dreams he could see her as he walked over to her bed, his steps slow – hesitant.

Was she real? Did he know her? Was he supposed to?

It’s been ten years and he still dreams of her in her dark room laying on her death bed looking out the window… looking at… he never knew.

Then he’d wake and her picture would be gone, all picture would be gone and he’d be out of her darkness and into the clarity of his own.