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Zane was born into a family of dream watchers, which means her fate was decided for her before she even planted her soft, tan feet on the astroturf outside her parent's Airstream. Rather than dream on their own, dream watchers eavesdrop on others' subconsciouses to regain energy while they sleep. If they don't, their waking hours are filled with fatigue, laziness, and irritation. Because of this, Zane thinks her birth to be a curse.When she turns ten, she realizes that the dreams of kids her age are self-centered and wicked, consisting of petty, surface-level desires. This doesn't change even as her family travels from town to town, year after year. But on Zane's eighteenth birthday, when her parents decide to finally settle down, she dreams on her own, and she can't stop.This wouldn't be a problem if the object of her reveries wasn't a mysterious stranger who appears each night and relies on her for comfort.As soon as Zane decides it's silly to crush on a guy she knows she'll never meet, he moves into her neighborhood, and he's nothing like the version she knows from her dreams... ***ONC 2023 Prompts I'll be using:#50 & #52 (defined in my introduction)***…