Chapter 24. New Friend?

His thoughts were interrupted by Cerberus as the creature opened his mouth to speak. “I am not a human and I was never turned into what you are seeing. This has been my nature and how I've always looked.”

“What do you want with me?” James leans on one of the oak trees that surround them. He wasn’t sure if he was seeing what he’s seeing. He thought he was hallucinating. “I get it! Oh yes, I get it now. You aren’t real. Perhaps it’s the apple I hate from Ozenzo's castle. They must have added something to the apple.”

“I’ve seen why you have not yet figured out how you got here. You see everything as unreal and I bet you’re thinking you must be asleep and will wake up soon from this nightmare. This is not a nightmare but a reality and I am real, just as you being in 'No Man’s Land' is real.”

“I will not believe anything you are saying. Soon, morning will come and all this will be gone. I will be awake on my bed, awake from all these nightmares.”

Cerberus chuckle