(1)

In the dream, there was fire and celebration. She watched as he tended the flames, poking here, now there, careful to keep the fire burning, but not too strongly. He looked up, smiled, and departed after managing the flames.

He was wearing blue and for some reason, that was one of the very few details that remained.

(2)
It wasn't anything, really, just something that, for a moment, closely resembled a faint promise of something.