[ Hei wasn't happy when the vision started, a slight gleam in the reflective mirror of the general store's security system that caught his attention. He had only glanced at it out of habit, half expecting to see someone following him, but instead, he saw them all over again.
Friends that he knew were dead, being happy, going about their daily business. There was Huang with his newspaper leaning against the wall, Yin in her shop and Misaki driving away in a spin of wheels in pursuit of some criminal. It was in Miranda tripping over her feet as she walked a passel of dogs or, rather, they walked her. It was in Tear laughing behind her hand just before she hurried up next to her to take a few leashes in hand, reigning them in.
And it was Pai, Pai as her ten year old self smiling and giggling with Saya over new clothes as Hei watched through the open window of a shop. All his friends, his family, alive and well and Hei, somehow, in the middle of it all as Amber ran up behind him, a picture of her loli self catching an arm and pulling him into the shop. Together, with them.
Hei's face twisted into a scowl as he slammed his fist into the nearest shelf, breaking a jar of sauce as it slid and crashed into the ground. He had no need for visions. Those dreams were already long gone. ]