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The dome under the water was speaking to her. She could hear the terror in their minds as she pressed her hands against it.
Who was she. The girl outside the dome. Their fear and confusion was wild in her head, while the water pressure was unbearable against her struggling body. All she wanted was to go inside the dome, to breathe their air, to walk amongst the Beings inside.
Her lungs burned, her eyes wanted to open. Where the hell was she now, why had she come. Hikari sat bolt upright, a choked cry leaving her as she coughed out the salt water from her lungs. Her eyes burned and her joints ached, and she shook from the cold that chilled her to the bone.
“Hikari?” Tailmon was quick to react from her small shared bed with Agumon on the floor. She moved quickly and near silently to her partner, placing her paws on either side of Hikari’s face.
“You’re soaked through…” Hikari and Tailmon’s eyes met, as Taichi stirred in the bed above.
“Hikari?” he slid down the rungs on the ladder, the deep concern for his baby sister seen even through the darkness. He crawled into bed next to her, wrapping his arms around her, trying to warm her.
“It happened again, Taichi,” she whispered. He shuddered, and pulled her closer to him, breathing in the smell of her salty hair. “I went to… another place. This one was underwater. I couldn’t breathe.”
Taichi shook his head, trying to calm himself as much as Hikari. “No, sweetheart, no,” he whispered. “I keep telling you. These are just bad dreams. You aren’t going anywhere.”
That smell though, it’s unexplainable.
“Because it really happened, I’m telling you,” Hikari sobbed.
Tailmon came to her, curling up in her lap, exchanging a concerned look with Taichi. By this time Agumon had stirred, and had joined the group curled up on the bed. Taichi ran a hand over his bumpy, scaly head, and the monster leaned into it.
“Run a bath,” he said to him. “I’ll go check and make sure Mom and Dad are still sleeping. Tailmon?”
“I’ll get her cleaned up,” nodded Tailmon. “Come on Hikari, lets get you to the bathroom. I’ll help you out.”
Once in the warm water, Hikari leaned back against the tub, steadying herself. Tailmon sat next to her on the edge, watching her intently.
“You believe me, don’t you?” Hikari whispered to her partner, running her fingers though the cat’s fur. “You have to believe me.”
Tailmon twitched her tail as Hikari’s hand drifted lower to it's base. The monster leaned against Hikari, rubbing her head against the young girl’s face to calm her while she chose her words carefully.
“You’ve always been… different. You've been doing this for years with no explanation behind it. Then there’s the… you know…” She drifted off, and two shared a look. Through the last through years, the mild readings Hikari had been able to preform were gaining power. The headaches were bad, but now she was seeing things that weren't exactly there, as far as Tailmon could tell. Hikari stared at her hands, which had been pruned since she had woken up.
“What’s happening to me,” she whispered. “What is going on.”