(Lena)
The dream came without warning.
One moment I was in the dark behind my eyes, somewhere between thinking and not thinking, and then Cole was there and I was already inside it before I had time to prepare for it.
It started the way the first one had. Him close, the room dark and warm, no desk between us, no case file, no professional context pulling us back to opposite sides of anything. Just the two of us in a space that had no address and no particular shape but felt completely real while I was inside it. The kind of real that only existed in dreams where your body believed everything before your mind had a chance to argue with it.
But this time it did not stay the way the first one had.
The first dream had been warm and tentative in a way that felt like the beginning of someth
