The grass crunched under heavy boot, dry and dead.

Sighing, Blue stopped in a place he had thought he'd never return to.

"Hello mother..." Blue whispered, placing a hand on the long dead bark of the tree of feelings.

The last time he saw his original AU, it had been night and filled with life.

Sighing he sat down his back against the tree remains, ignoring the too dry earth below him.

"This is my fault, if I never ran... our AU wouldn't be slowly fading away into nothing," Blue cried.

Once this place was gone, only his new AU would keep him stable.

The tree of feelings had been his and Dreams souls, if he'd been smart he should have taken one of the apples to act as his soul. Dream had taken the final golden apple, and it served as his twins soul.

The False Nightmare had the rest of the apples.

Yet...

In joining swap, becoming Blue...

He'd somehow gained his own soul.

Error had warned him it was very fragile.

Night was falling when he got up, gently wiping away his tears.

"Goodbye mother," he whispered, and then was gone.

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Dream paused as he entered Dreamtale, a frown on his face as he came to check on the tress fading self.

Sighing he looked around,

He must be more tired then he thought, if he swore he felt an uncorrupted Nightmares magic.

"Inks right... I do need a Vacation," Dream finally said.