The Life of Nyx

I am Nyx The moon is casting its silvery glow on rooftops and roads. It's 12 past 11 pm now but I still got more than an hour of work on my table. Not a few days have passed since i have been making progress in my academics, the negative thoughts to pull me back started already. I put my pen down and had a glance of the moon through my window. My moon teaches me that even in the darkness we don't have to lose our shine. I may not shine as bright as the sun , but i don't want the feelings of regret in future. Nevertheless consistency and persistence has its own magic. Without any further delay, i dived into my work , and finally finished it after an hour of hard work. While getting ready to sleep, the magazine lying beside me caught my attention with the title in the bold letters which spells Lucid dreams. Lucid dreams are those types of dreams in which you have real world consciousness. This makes me remember my last memory of having one. I remember my body's sensation in there. I took control of the surroundings, made wings behind me and took a flight. Not a few seconds passed in the air, i began to lose control. Just the moment before hitting the ground, i woke up to reality. That was nostalgic.I read a poem from the magazine then, after sucking up half of the air in my room through my yawn, i turned off the lights and drifted into sleep. On getting consciousness, i woke up to find myself in a red fluorescent lighted room with only one door filled with white fog as an exit. Through my body's sensation,it instantly clicked my mind. The location of this place, a dream, Lucid dream. I didn't expect to experience it again that too with this much consciousness. I thought about flying again but the curiosity to know what was behind the door held me back. I walked towards the door to find the white mist clearing , revealing a yellowish glow. Upon examining the entrance closer, it felt nothing less than a portal to another world. I entered the room which was filled with the yellow glow of candles on the left and right side of the shelves. An earthy smell filled everywhere. The room seems to be nearly 10 × 10 metres (average of a classroom) ,with the interior closer to that of a museum? Probably. Somehow, it feels there's much deeper space ahead. It has many artifacts, antiques etc.. the walls are painted golden yellow with somewhat traditional carvings except for the opposite wall. That wall has a unique design with some shiny metallic blocks, which resembles a crescent moon in the centre with 26 stars circling around it. A hollow space enough to fit another star exists much closer to the moon. Not only that , the lines extending from each star joins with a common stream of line emerging from the floor which kind of shapes a figure similar to the structure of the door i just entered. I wished for the door to open, but looks like the laws of lucid dreams aren't active now. Upon closer inspection of the design , i expected it to be a puzzle which on solving leads to the door to get unlocked. Maybe I can find the missing piece. I positioned myself as a detective and started the chase for the missing piece. With enthusiasm, I searched in the antique Cabinet and found nothing apart from a few scrolls Expecting some hints, i opened up the scrolls The first scroll says "The three cursed lines to the divine To wax and wane for the cause of discriminated lane To lose its shine for the cause of cursed love stolen. To make the eyes blind to those who take its record for the cause of it's disrespectful act towards the lord." Well, isn't it hard to understand . Nevertheless i don't think there's something related to the star. I picked up the second scroll , it says During the onset of the blood moon, thee will come to seek it In the murky ruinous of pansélino, thou will be its.. Now, the first one feels pretty easy.. To give it a thought, should i really be doing this, wouldn't it be better if i just go home and dive into a deep dream of sleep. Wait, i am sleeping right now, don't i?. arghh! whatever.. Turn for the third scroll.. Finally, not some boring twisted or unknown words.. it is a picture, depicting the same one as that of the wall.. There are different symbols on each star, and the special star which I have been searching for, for so long got two triangles topped on each other with one vertex, like a sand hourglass? I picked up the sand hour right before me on the cabinet, inspecting every corner to find nothing. As i was keeping it back on the table, something unusual was shown within the sandglass hour. As the sand was shifting to another segment it revealed a star inside with the same metallic luster as that of the remaining 26 on the wall. Getting a sense of achievement, i opened the material and collected the star. Still it's unsettling for me to find this special star closer to the moon. Without much reasoning, i placed it in the hollow space near the moon. The light from the candles reached the special star with one further reflection from it, reaching the moon giving it a new shine. A thin red light started flowing through the main line. The light's consistency kept on increasing and now it overflowed from the line to the floor. Within a second, without my realisation, the whole room was painted fluorescent red, just like the previous one. It is the previous one indeed. The same empty room filled with pitch red with the only door through which white light is flowing. My consciousness has a clear cut idea that it's a dream but still fear seems to enter with its uninvited invitation.There, I found something entangled around my neck. I reached my neck with trembling hands to find a locket. A shiny silvery thread with a star. The star has this sand dust. Is this, that special star?.. As I was busy inspecting the locket, something on the floor caught my attention. A few writings were on the floor with an unknown language. Yet, somehow I seem to understand it, like I am able to read it. the writings are few words which are leading to the door. With the unknown knowledge I gained, I expect the first word to be spelled as Vishaka. I took a step ahead, reading the next word Ashvini. I kept moving forward with the words - Bharani, Krittika, Mrigashira, Chitra, Swati, Revati, Shrestha, Anuradha, Arda, Purnavaru, pushya, Ashlesha, purvaphalguna, Uttaraphalguna, Magha, Mula, jyestha, purvashada, uttarashada, shravana, dhanista, shatabisha, purvabhadra, uttarabhadra And then I stood on the last word Rohini facing the entrance of the room. There's again this yellowish glow and I tried to peek through without giving my presence inside.This room is pretty dark themed unlike the previous one. The tint of yellowish glow came from the single ceramic candle stand on the cabinet placed to the left side of the wall. As my eyes were gradually adapting to the darkness I noticed a silhouette sitting still on a swing chair. The room was straight out of those rich traditional mansions back then. Mosaic tiles, eagle statues, antique clock and paintings, flower vase at a corner. The room leads to the balcony revealing a beautiful mountain landscape scenery. With the rays of moonlight flowing through it , I captured the shiloutte face.....