My name is Takeru Takaishi, and I had a pretty weird dream last night. I dreamt about my best friend.

Now, if you were Miyako or Daisuke you'd start joking. Odds are you're making jokes already especially if you know my best friend is a girl, Hikari "Kari" Kamiya.

Now, this is not one of those dreams you might be thinking of. If anything this one seemed slightly closer to a nightmare.

I dreamt she was made of glass. She was just a glass figure wearing her normal clothes.

She seems fragile to many people. She was frequently ill when she was a child, and she also had her fair share of traumas in the digital world along with the rest of us. The metaphor in my dream at first seems fitting.

So there she was, Kari as glass. Strangely she could move, and she did. But as she moved she kept colliding with things. Things that caused her to start to crack. Spiderwebs spreading out from the impact points, hairlines in the smooth transparent surface. But the hardest hits seemed to be on areas she had covered up.

She was walking towards me and when she reached me, she had cracks all over.

I should stop here and point out this kind of scenario utterly terrifies her. We once met a Cockatrimon and even though no one was hurt, she had nightmares for weeks of a statue toppling over and smashing.

She wasn't even petrified, she was terrified for our Digimon who were. Digimon who I can confirm are reborn even when something like that happens. Kari wasn't there at the time though.

I'm getting a little off topic. Back in my dream, the glass-Kari was still in her normal shape apart from all the cracks.

For some reason I asked her to take her glove off.

She did. Her whole arm seemed to be just glass dust floating in the shape of her arm, staying together who knows how.

But then she smiled, a glass grin. And the cracks started to heal. She became whole again, the lines fading and the dust returning to solid glass. And still smiling, the glass became normal skin, and she put her glove back on.

That was when I woke up confused as... Something really confused.

Now, what to make of this dream? I can't tell her for many obvious reasons. I also don't want to tell any of my other friends. Tai would be disturbed I had a dream about his sister and disturbed by the scenario. Matt... Well, Matt isn't the kind of brother who'd understand. Sora, well, she might as well be Kari's sister.  Mimi... Too, well, Mimi. Also lives in America so catching her online is a nightmare at times.

Iori... Probably wouldn't understand. Ken... I don't know him all that well to be honest, and besides, he's Miyako's boyfriend. Secrets are impossible for him to keep.

Daisuke and Miyako, well, I covered what they'd do already.

Joe, Izzy... Both too analytical. They would likely pull some dream meaning book that concludes such a dream means I have some secret desire to become an airline pilot or some other ridiculous claim.

Don't get me wrong - Dreams do have a meaning, I just don't think it's black and white. They're all metaphors. Sometimes it's pretty simple, like "Yeah, you should not have eaten that cheese" or whatever. Other times it's telling you something or reminding you something.

And for whatever reason my dreams decided to remind me something about Kari. She only looks fragile. She's tougher than people think. She can take quite a lot. And even if the blow shatters the glass she can recover.

She can be cracked but I don't think anyone will ever break her.