voi ch'intrate (джен)

“Ooh, like that guy in a horror movie!” he interjects, fully sitting up now. “When he wakes up from a nightmare and then bam! Spots the monster in the bathroom mirror or something, because he never woke up for real and he’s still in the nightmare.”
“Exactly!” Donnie beams and Mikey – despite how abso-super-lutely and straight up horrifying this theory is – gives himself a second to feel a little proud he figured it out.
“Great,” Raph groans. “So we’re the idiots in a horror movie. Just great.”
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when you can't be sure whether you're truly awake and the nightmares keep turning worse, it's up to mikey to save his brothers. but for that, he has to wake up first.
or, darkness within but with an extra serving of grief