The story about a little girl in her life.

She just met him in her dreams, but doesn't mean he really existing.

I always wanted to meet my real parents and I met my mother, she is also my mother's missing sister. After school was over we went on our daily missions.
"Hey Liz, where were you in the morning?"
Liz was with Ana but when I was with my mother, only Ana was there so Liz doesn't know anything yet.
"I am in charge of our school trip--training camp next week" said Liz
"Is that so?"
Should I tell Liz about my mother? As I was thinking that Ana whispered to me,
"Hey Luka, you should tell Liz about--"
"I know"
"Do you want me to tell her?"
"No"
"Huh?"
"It's not like I don't want to but you know, she doesn't have a mother and I think she doesn't get along with her father"
Liz has stayed over at Ana's place many times, but she never told her parents about it and whenever we ask her about her father she dodges the topic.
"Yeah you are right"
"What are you two whispering about?" Liz asked us in a low voice, imitating us.
"Whoa Liz"
"What were you two talking about?"
"Nothing serious" said Ana
"Ah, don't tell me you were talking about something lewd now that you are going out"
"We weren't!"
"If you two decide to do something, count me in"
"We just said we weren't talking about that"
"Okay"
We are on our way back home,
"Hey Ana" said Liz
"Yes?"
"Can I stay at your place for a few days?"
"Sure"
Now I am sure something is wrong.
We went home, I took a bath, and I am eating dinner. I am very happy today, I met my real mother and I--
"Why do you look so happy Luka?" My old man asked.
"I am not happy or anything" 
"Hey Luka" Lily who was sitting beside me whispered to me
"What?"
"Did you kiss Ana?"
What the hell is she asking!
"I didn't"
"Then why are you so happy?"
She thinks I am happy because I might have kissed Ana?
"I am not--ah, there is training camp next week, so I am excited about that"
"I see"
I was lying on my bed, thinking of what happened today, I am very happy, I can't wait to meet mama tomorrow.
The window is open so I can feel the cold breeze, as I was enjoying the cold breeze, I felt like my body...no, rather than my body it felt like my soul was being dragged somewhere. I opened my eyes to see everything around me was black.
Another dream? I feel like I have been here before.
"That's right. I remember. I was chasing a light but there is no light...here"
I saw a bright light, last time I was chasing it but this time it's coming at me.
"Hello there"
The light was so bright that my eyes...wait the light just spoke?
I slowly opened my eyes to see a girl in white, she has white long hair, she is shining like a moon.
"Hello there"
"...."
"Hello there"
She is really speaking!
"...."
"You can't understand me? I said Hell-llo"
Stop with the gesture!
"Umm...what is going on?"
"You can hear me?"
"Is this a dream?"
"You can say that"
"What?"
"I am inside your body"
"Inside my body?"
"Do you remember some weeks ago you felt like something went inside your body?"
"Ye...ah?"
"That was me"
"So you are impurity?"
"Impurity is the wrong word but you can say I am pure impurity"
What the hell is pure impurity? 
"How are you inside my body? And what do you want?"
"What do I want? I don't want anything"
"Why are you in my body?"
"Because I wanted to?"
Why are you asking me? And didn't you just say that you don't want anything?
"Okay, let's start again. First, who are you?"
"I am a spirit"
"Spirit? So you are dead?"
"No, I don't have a body"
 I am more confused now!
"What is your name?"
"Name? What is name?"
Someone please wake me up!
"Name means...my name is Luka. People call me Luka. What about you? What do people call you?"
"I don't have a name"
"You don't remember it?"
"No, I never had a name"
"Okay. What do you want from me?"
"I don't want anything"
"So why are you inside my body?"
"I just felt like I should go inside you"
We are back to start!
"Do you want to possess or control my body?"
"How do I do that?"
Don't ask me!
Wait, she is inside my body that means that voice...
"Did you help me remember my mother?" 
"...."
She is silent.
"Hello, can you hear me?"
"When I entered your body I read your memories"
My memories?!
"You always wanted to meet your mother and I found one memory which was of your mother. I just helped you remember it"
My memories? She can do something like that?
"Have you read all of my memories?"
"I did"
That moment I remembered all the embarrassing moments of my life but it's too late for that now.
She can read my memories so could it be that she also...
"Can you read my dreams too?"
For the past few months I have had strange dreams. When I wake up I don't remember the dreams but I can remember whether it was a sad dream or a happy dream. I can't remember the dreams, all that's left is the feeling that I can't describe.
"The dreams are also stored in memories but people always forget them"
"Did you read my dreams too?"
"I...did"
"Can you tell me what type of dreams they are?"
"I can't. They are too cruel and painful" 
But...
"They are only dreams, right?"
"I don't know"
"The person in my dreams me?"
"I don't know" 
"....."
What's going on? I was born, I have a mother, I grew up with Ana, so what are those dreams?
"But there is something strange"
"Huh?"
"You are 17 years old, right?"
"That's right. Why did you ask?"      
"Um...it's hard to explain. Oh, can I pluck your hair?"
"Huh? Sure, but why?"     
She plucked one of my hair.
"You are 17 years old. You have 17 years of memory"
"Yeah so?"
"This. If your hair is 17 years of your memory since you were born then...."
She plucked one of her hair. 
"What are you trying--"
"Then my hair is the memory of your dreams"
"What?"
"My hair is a memory of your dreams"
"I heard that but what do you mean?"
"In other words if your hair--"
"Wait, you don't mean that if my hair is 17 years of my life then..."
"That's right, the dreams you are having are thousands of years old"
"How is that possible?"
"Not only that, the dreams are more than thousands of years long"
"How is something  like that possible?"
"I don't know"
"Is the person in my dream immortal or what?"
"I don't know"
"You should know. You read my dreams, right?"
"I did but not everything is..."
"You mean there is more?"
"....."
"You mean I will get more of these dreams? Even though I don't remember them? Why?" 
"Please don't yell at me. I am just inside your body for sometime. I will leave your body soon"
"Ah...I am sorry I didn't mean to yell at you. I wasn't yelling at you"
"....."
"You can stay in my body as long as you want"
"I.....so...ha...to...so...thi...abou...ast"
"What did you say?" 
"Luka. Luka. Wake up. You will be late"
I opened my eyes. My head hurts. Did I have a dream again?
"Hey what's wrong? Why are you out of breath? "
Wait..I remember. I remember this dream.
"I met a girl in a dream"
"Luka"
"Lily. What's wrong? Why do you look so--"
"Even though you are going out with 2 girls, you are dreaming of some other girl?" 
"Wait, no. I mean I did meet a girl but she was real"
"You have guts to admit that"
"No, believe me. It was a dream but she was real"
"I will call Ana"
"Wait don't. Please! I will do anything"
"Anything?"
Oh, crap!
"Nothing lewd" 
"Okay so, kiss me"
"I just said nothing lewd"
"Kissing is not lewd"
"It is" 
"But you said you will do anything"
"I also said nothing lewd"
"I will call Ana after all"
"Wait, I will, I will kiss you"
 "Really?"
"Yeah, close your eyes"
"Okay"
She leaned forward and closed her eyes. I grabbed her face and kissed her...on the forehead. 
"Happy?"
"Kiss me on the lips"
"You never said anything about lips"
"Why you--"
"You think you are smart? Your brother is smarter than you"

well its really dark down here and its just 10pm and all the members and IU is already in their rooms. I should go and have a sit first

.....

wait a second, do they have the ingredients for the chicken soup? if don't then that'll be bad because Suga already have his noodles last night, I should go and have a look then

I'm walking my way to the kitchen slowly because its dark. when I'm about to open the light someone grabbed my wrist and pushed me in the wall

--who the heck really are you? 

Me: what!?

Jungkook: I said who are you?

oh my goshhhhh its Jungkook!

Me: I'm Lyndel?

Jungkook: who's the real you? i'm asking

Me: what real me? this IS me

Jungkook: why are you always appearing in my dreams? why are you always in my dreams? why do I seemed like to be so close to you in my dream?

Me: what are you talking about? I don't know!

Jungkook let go of my wrist and talks seriously

Jungkook: tell me, what's your dream this past few nights?

Me: I didn't slept last night so...

Jungkook: I mean the PAST

Me: ok so those past nights....they have you in my dreams. actually in the past 3 nights you weren't talking to me and look so angry and quiet

Jungkook: in the past 3 nights? actually in my past 3 nights excluding last night. I tried not to talk to you...could it be that, tell me what is the last thing you remembered?

Me: the scene that I remembered in my last dream is that....I was stock in the room hiding under the make up table and you guys came and suga talked to me

Jungkook: then its true then....were having a same dream, every night

Me: what do you mean?

Jungkook: last night, I was having hard time sleeping and when I finally in a deep sleep I don't really remember a thing in my dream, feels like I don't have a dream

Me: well I did not sleep last night

Jungkook: that's the thing you didn't sleep last night...does that have a connection with my problem sleeping?

Me: I mean I always have trouble sleeping so I really don't get what you mean

Jungkook: I guess its just a coincidence then....okey I'll go back to my room then

Me:...

he just left like that, but its really creepy that we were sharing a same dream...makes me shiver a little bit

oh yeah I should go and have a look in the ingredients...


....


looks like they really have everything here, I should start boiling some water now and prepare the ingredients so I can deliver these in Suga's room in the exact 12am

oh right, I need a cellphone soon so I guess I need to do a really good job in this cooking this few nights






in the exact 12am I head straight to Suga's room with the food and a coffee in the tray

*tap* a sound of button

*click*

Suga: you came right in time, I'm starving

Me: here *passes food* I'll wait out here for the dishes

Suga: you can wait inside. come in

•a girl who has an Idol that she wanted to meet..a girl who will do anything for her Love and a guy that will sacrifice everything for her love...

I rush pass the Ataraxia and fumble my way through the build to the outside. Standing outside in the light of the setting sun everything was average. Nothing was out of the ordinary, the building I was in, was a mansion. Everything around the house seem to be of a high quality and well taken care of. It was nice, It was pretty, It was normal. Nothing in the surrounding that would give a dead give away to be in another world, except the dome. The dome was odd but did not seem to be  fantastical or magical in anyway,just a regular dome. "Maybe not, it just not enough to declare it to be a different world, I may just be delusional". I continued to walk to observe my surroundings, taking notice of the well kept gardens and clean outside furniture. Further along the path there a giant crystal floating the of the walkway, like where a statue would be. The crystal appeared to be the size of an adult human. Also the crystal was almost transparent and was almost unseeable if didn't refract light from the sun. it appears to be- "Please Wait!!". A voice of girl screaming at to stop. After Run to me and somewhat at out of breathe ask me a question "Why did you run away!?" in a slightly irritated voice. "Well I surprised from my surroundings and had to investigate". "Did you really have to do that now?" she asked ."It a habit of mind to observe my surroundings, if I don't I get restless". Not wanting to go any further in that discussion, I change the subject"Anyways, what is this". "The mana stone?" she confusedly asked. I responded with a simple "yes". "It give mana to my tools"." tools?" I bluntly asked. She response confused by the question "what do you mean?"."yeah, i guess it was a stupid question". She suddenly make horrified face and then screams out "YOU CAN'T SAY THE WORD!!!" She begins to make pouting face and her arms by her side while make a fist in each hand. Surprised I let out the most appropriate response "wha-". She continued to stare a me with eyes that attack me with the force ten thousand suns. I fell back from the shear pressure it pushes on to me. Scared for my life, I whimper, "what do you mean?"."the 's' word is what i mean!!" she states as she continues to attack me with her stare. "Wait, what that all?" seeing my clear confusion, she breaks her pout. 
" Anyways, you still haven't answered my question".
"oh that, yeah, I am not from the inside of the dome". 
"Really!?!"
"Y-yeah"
"What type of food you eat, have you seen fire magic  lightning magic, water magic, beast, light, dark, spatial, earth, air, mat-"
"Wait, clam down, what do you mean magic "
"You don't know what magic is"
She says quietly to herself but still load enough for me to hear."Note to self, people don't know what magic is outside of the dome "
She suddenly perks up "Wait, what do you mean 'what do you mean magic'"
She continues "My teacher said everyone outside of the dome uses magic in their everyday life"
"For you to question what magic is weird, as if you are not from this world" she accused while circling me like a shark would around it pery.
I respond "yeah i am not from this world, my world didn't have magic in it, well at least it wasn't called magic, but nothing like this crystal."
Her face changes from a stern to sadden "so you are not from the outside world" in a sad tone
"No" I responded bluntly 
"Oh, I see" she disappointedly says
"Can you tell me where are we" I nervously asked
"What do you mean, we are in a Dome?" She says as she stares at me with a confused expression
"No I know we are in a dome, what I meant what is this dome we are in"
She looks at me with a troubled expression "I don't really know what the dome is"
"What" I responded confusedly 
"Well, All I can remember is being inside of this dome, I can only thing i can see outside of the dome is sky, it a little depressing"
She looks down and the mood turns stiff.
To break the stiff mood, I ask "What are your dreams?"
After the question the stiffness begins again
I begin again "My Dreams lays beyond this dome"
"..." 
I continue while staring at the sky" To begin an adventure unlike anything I could experience in my world. To see and experience something. To live my life my way.
I turn to look at her to see  tears flowing down her face.
She begins to speaks in a quiet voice " My-y Dreams- are impossible"  
Then suddenly runs away from me towards a hill with a tree on the top.

We all had the fantasy of traveling to new world and experiencing magic and heroic quest. But this is impossible dream, a fantasy.
Until it happens to someone with that Impossible Dream.

She finally said "You are not in my dream right...?? We are talking in real ... face to face right ??"

Sebastian Chuckled while massaging her cheeks he said 
"No Mrs. Lee I'm not in your dream..."

"Then... Then am I hallucinating??"
She said while looking at him forgetting all the pain and anger 

He looked at her and his eyes softened by the thought of that 'Did she really see me in her dreams?'

He said "No..Way Stella I'm right here in front of you and ...tell me how many times did you see me in your dreams...??"

Stella was still in her thoughts and said "A lot of times..." Quickly she came to her senses and wanted to cover up what she has said but Sebastian said 
"But not more than you came in my dreams..."

Stella was stunned , startled dumb fouded she thought 'What the hell this man is saying?? he just said that he was me in his dreams a lot of time but did he actually know that I dream of him every night ... hah.. what a lair...'

He hugged her gently and said "You are my wife and only you have the right to be in my dreams .."

'What?What??What??? He said I have the right... it..it means he finally thinks me as his wife ... I mean he finally took me as his wife...'

He said further "Stella..."

Absentmindedly she replied "Umm"

"You are not allowed to seduce any one and not allowed to be seduced by any one..."
He said with all his seriousness
Startled Stella said "Whatttt...!!??"
She thought and curse him in her heart 'What the hell did he take me as?? am I really that low to do all these things?? Well he is right I am really not allowed to do so... because I am and madly in love with him..'

He repeated him self "You are not allowed to seduce any one and not allowed to be seduced by any one..."

She asked "Why?? Why am I not allowed to do that?? oh well lots of girls here try to seduce you every day while wearing extremely short dresses and exposing the part which are supposed to be hidden..."

Sebastian can sense the hint of jealousy because he him self was being jealous with every small points 

He said mockingly "Stella...Are you jealous??"

Stunned Stella pulled her self from his embrace and said "W-Why would I be jealous, I mean I feel embarrassed when I saw them because you know I never put that kind of dresses..."

He chuckled and said "Ok Ok Mrs Lee you win but listen to me you are allowed to seduce me only not any one also..."

She felt shy when he said 'You are allowed to seduce me only...' 
She punched on his chest and said "Who the hell do you think want to seduce you... "

As she said she ran away from him and she exited from confrence hall...
She saw that every one was standing here 
She kept her head low and did not want to I interact with them...
One of them came near to her and said "I saw you wearing the same jacket of 10 million dollars from last week... well why don't you change in to another one .."

She knew that she already blabber enough a while ago...

Two Childhood sweethearts Stella & Sebastian were in love with each other from their childhood but due to some misunderstanding no one confessed to each other and their family forced them to marriage and still they were living as strangers after her graduation Stella started working for his company and they slowly started to understand each other...
But destiny decided some thing else for them and they get separated by an accident


Read my novel to read further and how they united in the end 
If you like it after reading just comment in the comment section and yeah throw some stones too 

THANK YOU...

The sun was so fucking hot. 

I was standing in line to take my drivers test with my mother, and we were some of the lucky ones who got to wait outside rather than in the nice air conditioning. 

"You had better pass this, because we're not coming here again." She says, patting at her hairline which is beginning to collect sweat. She's a small woman, even more so than me. I got curves from my dad's side of the family, so I'm not a complete twig like her. But somehow she's still kind of terrifying, and I admire her for that.

"We both know that's not true." I smirk at her, and she rolls her eyes, but she's smiling.

"I got this." I say, stretching my neck forward to see the front of the line.

It's been four days since my dream. 

    The day of the dream, I hadn't really done anything. I had fed my dog breakfast and then gone back to bed until three, until I had to get up and get ready for work at five. Work had been busy, a pleasant distraction from thinking about my dream. The next days I spent mostly trying to busy my mind. I cleaned the house and my room (a pleasant surprise for my mother) gave my dog a bath, sorted out some clothes to sell for extra cash, stuff like that. My mom thought I was on drugs and I think she was seriously considering buying an at home drug test.

I've obviously slept since then, and no dreams like that have happened again. I had a dream that I was a mermaid trapped in disney world, and I swear to god, I could see the boy from the field standing outside my tank, watching me with those blue eyes that captured the moon so perfectly. I mean I know he had said he was from my dreams but... I heard that you can't dream about someone you haven't seen before, so where did he come from originally? A magazine maybe? Instagram? Just a random attractive stranger that my mind weirdly clung onto? Is it possible that my mind captured a snapshot of some random guy, added a personality onto him, and has been putting him into my dreams for years? Because the more I think back, the more I think I can remember him from previous dreams. Never really acting like a main character. More like someone walking by, or a bird with suspiciously blue eyes flying over me. 

I was snapped out of my thoughts by my mother pushing me by my shoulder. "Let's go, Dee." She looks at me from the corner of her eye as we slowly shuffle forward. "What were you thinking about?" She asks.

I shake my head. "I just had a weird dream is all." I feel her fingers tighten around my shoulder, and I look at her. Her face looks pinched, like she's trying not to let me see some emotion. 

"What kind of dream?" She asks, avoiding looking at me.

"Well, the dream itself wasn't all that impressive…"I look at her face, wondering if I should tell her something so personal. "But when I woke up, It felt more like a memory rather than a dream."  She was quiet for several minutes, her eyes glued to the back of the woman ahead of us. "Mom…?" I ask after the silence begins making me sweat worse than the burning sun.

"Look, I need you to promise me a couple of things." My mom is suddenly pulling me closer to her, so that she can speak more directly to me without others overhearing, as though she was about to tell me the meaning of life or some other big secret. 

I nod, staring at her suddenly wrinkled and worried brown eyes. "First, I need you to know, dreams can be very real."
"What do you mean by that?" I ask, stepping closer to her. 

"All I mean is… dreams have meaning in them, Dee. You don't just dream stuff for no reason. A lot of people think dreams are like foreshadowing, visions, if you must. I myself am one of those people. I take every dream I have very seriously, and I suggest you do too. Do you understand what I'm saying?" She stares into my eyes, and tightens her grip on my shoulder as though that's going to make me understand better. 

"Yeah… got it. And the second thing?" She stares at me for a second longer, like she's considering saying one thing, but then decides on another, and then lets go of my shoulders. 

"I need you to promise me that you're going to go in there and pass this fucking thing, because I literally never want to come back to this place ever again."

And then she was pulling me back into line, straightening her crisp white shirt, and facing forward, acting as though she hadn't totally just sounded like she knew exactly what was going on in my life right now.



    That night I didn't get home until almost one. 

I worked a late shift, and since I could now drive myself home, I decided to stop at a burger joint and get me some late night dinner. And because I was avoiding my own damn dreams, I ate inside and took my time, ordering seven soda refills. Which may have pissed my cranky waitress off, but bought me a little time to continue thinking about my current situation. 

I had compiled a list of observations: 

One: this guy was obviously some miserable creation my own lonely mind created to compensate for the lack of male presence in my life. 

Two: my mother probably thought I was dreaming about becoming a doctor and wanted me to take that into consideration when choosing what I was going to college for, and that's why she acted like a crazy person when I mentioned dreams. 

And three: I couldn't avoid sleeping forever. While I had been sleeping okay the last few nights, I had a weird sense of dread tonight. Like my brain just knew, that tonight, I would be returning to the field.

The last observation was extremely prevalent as I laid down in my soft bed after taking the longest route home possible. My mom had already gone to sleep since she had to work in the morning, and my dog too was asleep at the foot of my bed. I slipped my cold feet under her warm belly.

I covered myself up with my soft, knitted, mustard yellow blanket. I listened to the sound of my noisy, and yet somehow soothing fish tank that sat on top of my overflowing bookshelf across the room.

The last thing I thought of before falling asleep, was how my fan felt like a cool night breeze.


"Are you okay?" An unfamiliar voice asks me. 
I sit straight up, breathing heavily. A woman jumps away from me, as though I'm the one was creeping on her while she was sleeping.  She's large, both height wise and weight wise. She looks like a fat version of cinderella before she got her glass shoes.  She has a lovely, cream colored face with flushed cheeks and bright blue eyes. 

I look around. I'm laying in a field, but it's not the field I wanted to be in. This one was dried up looking, dead and sad in appearance. I looked up, and was surprised to find the same bright white moon from before. The moon assured me that I was in fact in the right place. Or, at least in the general vicinity of the right place.

My eyes fall back on the woman. She's still staring at me, but she is visibly uncomfortable and obviously wants to leave. "Yeah I just… have you seen a guy? Really tall with a tattoo on the back of his neck." I stand up, dusting dirt off my sleeping shorts. 

"Well sure." She looks at me, continuing to back up little by little. "Everyone knows everyone here." I furrow my brow at her, becoming increasingly frustrated with her avoidance tactic.

"Well can you tell me where to find him?" I ask, raising my brows at her. "Please, it's really important." 

"He's probably home or in his field." She points to our right.

"Thank you." As soon as those words leave my lips she spins around and practically runs away, her feet making loud slapping noises against the sad dead ground.

I shake my head, and turn to my right, making my way through the treeline, pushing that very strange encounter to the back of my mind. The forest is pleasantly thick, but not so thick that I can't see far enough ahead of me. I can see a house to my left a few hundred feet ahead of me. I presume that's the boy's house, which means the field shouldn't be much farther ahead.

I walk quickly, feeling slightly pressed for time. Last time it was days before I could come back, what if it's longer this time? What if it's a week, or a month, or a year? I don't really know this boy too much, but for some reason the thought of not seeing him for a year makes my heart knot up. 

The tight feeling in my chest makes my bare feet move faster. I barely feel the sticks and rocks stabbing into my bare feet. I barely notice the gorgeous, huge trees covered in wet moss and flowers blooming around me. Or the deer scampering about like I was in a god damn fucking fairy tale.

All I can think about is how much my chest hurts.

I run by the house, which I can see now is man made. It's one story, with a roof that's sagging inwards. Its surrounded by thick overgrown bushes with flowers blooming from it, and the sides are home to a dark green moss. I can hear voices leaking from the cracks in the iffy wall, and can smell meat cooking and bread baking. My curiosity peaks, but I press on. I'll try the field first, and if he's not there, then the house.

A few more hundred feet, and I come to the field. 

It's just like I remember. Long, luscious grass, vividly colored flowers scattered in clumps. 

"Delilah?" I hear his voice, and my eyes search frantically for his face. 

When I find it, my heart melts. He looks so glad to see me, but I can see a layer of worry in his eyes. 

He was to the edge of the field, but now he jogs towards me. He stops abruptly in front of me, bringing along the smell of fresh bread and blood with him. 

"How did you get here?" He asks, cupping my cheeks. His hands are rough from years of manual labor, but I still lean into them. They're warm and comforting in this strange place.
"Well, a girl woke me up and I was laying in the middle of a different field. She kind of gave me directions to you but she was acting really sketchy-" 

"I didn't invite you here." He interrupts. I furrow my brow at him, shifting my weight to my other foot and grabbing his hands that still cupped my face with my own. 

"Do you not want to see me?" I ask, the inner corners of my eyes tingling. Was I about to be rejected in my own dream? 

"No, no. Of course I want to see you. But Delilah …" He pauses, looking around me towards the house. The forest seems quieter than before, more still. Even the wind is waiting to see what he's going to say next. " I can't explain this to you here. It's not safe… too many people may be listening." I furrow my brow at his words, looking around us. There was literally no one. 
What did he know that I didn't? 

"Please, I need to understand. Why do these dream seem so real? Who are you? Where did you come from?" I drop our hands down, taking a step away from him."I will explain everything. I promise, Delilah. But you need to find this field outside of your dreams." He says, backing away from me. I hear that dammed whistle coming from behind me, and he moves me out of the way.

"You mean to tell me this is a real place?" I ask, my voice going up an octave. 

"Yes." Is all he says. "Now I must go. Please, be careful about coming here. The next person who finds you sleeping may not be such a gracious host." And with that, he runs off, leaving me alone in the field with a million questions burning on my lips.


This time when I wake up I'm not so sad and lonely feeling. 
I'm confused and a little irritated. 
I sit up, trying to process what I just dreamt about. 

What the hell did he mean, "find this place outside your dreams?" 

Were my dreams more than dreams? Was this a real place and a real person I was visiting and talking to? 

    I sat there in my bed, my fan blowing freezing air on my flushed face, my dog still sleeping at my feet. It was barely even dawn, my mom had only left for work a few minutes ago, and yet I felt as though I was ready to run a mile.

    I was confused and curious about my dreams, so I got up and grabbed my laptop off of my desk. 

I typed "what do my dreams mean" into the search bar and got a million and a half results, all telling me I was either going to die or I wasn't getting enough Vitamin D. 

    I tried googling, "dreams," "vivid dreams," and about a hundred other keywords. In the end, I came out with a few theories. I reinstated my previous theory, that my mind had just weirdly latched onto a stranger. But on a more supernatural (and unrealistic) note, I could be psychically linked to someone. But I'd never met field boy in real life, so could I be connected to him? 

    And then I started thinking about my mother. 

    Why had she reacted so strongly when I told her about the dream? Scratch that, I hadn't even told her about the dream in detail. I had literally just said, "I had a weird dream." Did she know what was going in? Did she too have these dreams? In the end I realized I would have to ask her if I wanted to get any actual answers.

I see she's not there and I immediately go to the doctor to ask where she went. " oh she was picked up and taken home." W-what, she left without telling me," I run straight out the school not caring about my last fight. Not caring if I got disqualified. I sprint all the way to Ruby's house. I knock on the door and her mother answers. " oh Andrew, how nice of you to visit." "Where's Ruby ms. Williams," "oh she's in her room. She isn't really to happy with what happened with the entrance exam." "Thank you" I say as I go upstairs to her room. I knock on the door and say " I'm coming in, are you okay Ruby. You really had me worried earlier." " I'm sorry, I wasn't strong enough to get in," "there's  always next year." "No there's not." Ruby says. "What do you mean you can still try out next year too. I'll even sit out a year to wait for you." "Don't you get it idiot I'm giving up." "Wha- what do you mean giving up. You mean all the training, wishing, and your dreams mean nothing."       " wishing and dreams get you nowhere in life Andrew. My power isn't even that strong. It's best for me to be on the sidelines cheering instead of in the ring." I'm standing there my whole world just crushed. The whole reason I did any of this was because of her. I get up from where I'm sitting and I walk out. She calls my name but I don't answer. I just keep walking and walking all the way back to the school.

    I walk into the gym. When my name is called, "what I didn't miss my last fight. " I think this is a good chance to get my mind off of things when rage starts boiling up inside me as I see the 7 foot muscular man, who crushed my friends dreams on the other side of the ring. I shuffle up to the platform and take my stance. He has a wild grin on his face as he realizes who I am. " Oh your the runt, who's friend I demolished aren't you. I heard she can't compete anymore sucks to be her. She won't be able to fight for months because of how weak she was, I barely used my strength." I hear the count of 3.... 2.... 1..... I blast forward boosting myself by putting air around my feet and moving it rapidly. He side steps me and I'm wondering how does this big guy move so fast. He throws a punch to me but it's really slow. How the hell did he move so fast earlier then. I meet his punch in the middle with my own strike, and my hand feels like it's about to fall of. This was some of the most excruciating pain I'd ever experienced. " Your probably wondering how I'm so fast, that's because of my power. It's a power where I can control the weight of my body, and if I get really serious the things around me too,"  what the hell kind of power is that it's like he's made to be strong especially with his body. I need to do something drastic. I jab him in the face throwing a kick to his stomach knocking some of the air out of him. As he tries to breath I move the air away from him. He starts coughing loudly. I can't hold this for much longer I need to end this. I try to hit him in the face and a loud thwack sound can be heard throughout the stadium. H-he caught my punch. "Checkmate you crazy bastard, looks like I win." He says as he lifts me up and slams me onto the ground before everything goes black.

   When Roki was born he would always have a smile on his face and he was known to be a good child and Yoki was the one to be known as the clever one and the one that always has angry in him.
     "What am I going to do today?" Bridget said
      She was outside and she was watching Roki and Yoki play and they were only five years old and three years old.
      "Tag you it," Yoki said
       "No fair, you always tag me."
      "Oh, I'm sorry. I can't help that you so slow."
      "That means. Mom!"
      "Please, play nice with your brother."
       "Yes ma'am."
        They kept playing and at the time she was living by herself with her sons and hoping to see something change and it did for the better.
         For over the years Roki was feeling like he was seeing a future vision. Something that is yet to be. His dreams were feeling something that was going to change for the better but he couldn't understand them and see them as nightmares.
        Those nightmares were so evil and feel like there isn't ever going to end.
        "What is this? Why do I see that there is something that can't be done? Why?"
        He opens his eyes and he was sweating and he had been tired of seeing something he couldn't know anything about.
         He was crying and he had to look at the door and he sees that his mother had grabbed him and hug him and he had made it where he stop crying tears and he couldn't sleep without his mother.
          Bridget had gotten in the bed with him and he had made it to where he was never having nightmares again but he kept having them and he could never see that there was nothing he could do about those nightmares and so his mother, Bridget had to do something about those nightmares.
         Bridget tries to figure out that there should be something that should bring me to my knees.
        "I need to figure something out, dear."
        "I know, but what can we do about that?"
         "We got to do something because my baby is crying every night and I doubt that is a normal reaction from a kid his age."
          'We can go see about something tomorrow."
           Roman was hoping that his dreams would just stop and they wouldn't do anything, but there were non-stop nightmares.
           Due to his dreams. He hasn't changed his emotions about people and about his daily routine.
           He goes to school and he comes back home and he read books about the other worlds and Bridget would help him with that.
            "Do you love reading about those stories?"
            "I really love these stories due to all of the gods and heroes of each world. I like Heracles and Achilles. I also like the different ways about the different cultures and religions." 
             "Yeah, we all don't know what none of them look like but we draw them from our image and therefore they are draw base on lies and their perspective and that is what we know, but there are some that draw the truth."
             "So we got our own heroes from these books."
              "Yes, we all can be heroes, but people value their own lives. More than they value other people's lives."
             "That is crazy."
             "Why they do it? I don't know."
             "But that can't be though. Why do people not save other people's lives?"
             "It hard to understand but life isn't fair and if you have no power then you are a regular person."
              "That is not fair."
              "I know, but that just the way that life works. Don't forget the teaching that I am giving you because there are some things out of your control."
              "I don't understand."
              "It okay. No need for you to worry about. You still too young to understand some things and therefore you should read about the women in those stories and see how they are treated."
               "What will I learn from women anyway?"
              "So what are you saying? You say that my teaching doesn't matter."
              "No, mother, I didn't mean it like that."
               "What do you mean? Women are always been see as weak and never strong but women were heroes and warriors they are powerful than you could ever think. Don't forget that Roki. You should look at women as strong people, but if you look down at them they will destroy you."
               "Yes ma'am."
                Roki may say that but he fully didn't understand but he did finally read some books on women and he read about Medusa, Lilith, and Atalanta.
                He liked their stories and he also read about the Valkyries and Amazons.
               One day, Yoki was walking back home and he was looking around and he was seeing that there were people that were picking on a girl and being tricky and clever he uses his mind and not his might to hurt people. Yoki didn't notice that his brother was watching him.
                Roki was watching from afar and he looks at his brother as a hero but this changes his whole mindset about what he has just seen.
               "My brother is different but can I do that." 
              Roki tries that again and he tries again with his own classmate but that only got him into trouble. 
              "Brother, you okay."
           "No, Yoki, I can't do anything that you can do."
            "Your name is Yoki. It Roki and you must do things your way and you must always believe that you could do it your own way."
              "Okay, bro. I understand."
             Roki was seeing his brother as the best but he also believes that he will become someone great but all that change over time.
              Roman and Bridget would make a loud noise at night and Yoki knew what was happening but he didn't care but Roki was trying to see what was going on and there he took a peek and he sees that his mother was on top of Roman and she was sweating and naked.
              "Hey bro."
              "Huh?"
               "Shut up." Yoki closes the door and they didn't hear a thing.  
               "Brother, what was that?"
               "You will know what it is when you get older. Okay."
               Yoki could really tell him that how babies are made and so he just leaves at that and told him to talk with him.
                They kept hearing the same noise and Yoki ask Roki about his dreams.
                "Why do you want to know something about my dreams?"
                "You are always dreaming about death and chaos, but in reality, they are visions that would or could happen If you follow their path. You read about Norse mythology and so you must learn about fate. Fate can be tricky but you must know somebody about what you want to do before you go on and try to do anything that will hurt you."
                "What do you mean brother?"
                "There is always an end date for the end of the world and so if you have dreams about the future. You must be careful."
               "I don't understand."
               "Well, not yet anyway but you must understand that you should follow your own path and not a path that is in your mind. If you fail not to do that then it will happen."
              Roki didn't really understand but he knew now and so he didn't feel like talking about what happen to his family but he glad that Yoki is alive but he must find to see if his mother going to be alive and so his story is back to the present and he will make sure that he follows his own path toward the future.

Long ago demons were said to be evil being but what if I tell you that demons can look at as good beings. A tale of a woman that was living among humans but has a dark path with one of the demons kings of the underworld.

Vol 1
Roki was trying to figure out what happen to his family after the holy war between the angels and demons but found out that they were dead by the demons in another world.

Vol 2
The Japanese arc 
Roki tries to figure out what Morrigan took him at and he found out that curses were overrunning the world and the gods were somewhere else but Roki got some of the gods that fought him and he travels to the nether realm to find out how to get back home.

Vol 3
Celtic arc
It was four months before Yoki and the others had gone to the Japanese world and fond Roki. Yoki had led the other across the land and the meet up with Athena and they trying to find Roki but manage to figure out Morrigan had blocked their connection from Roki and so they had to defeat her to find Roki and bring him home.

Vol 4
The Battle of the Kingdoms
One of the members of the House of Luck was trying to find their grandfather's notes on their enemies and Luck had found out about his great-great-grandfather holding his trident with powers that will lead him and Roki and Yoki to the past to meet the first wielder of the trident of the lost city of Atlantics. Nyxt, the goddess of ocean and war.

Vol 5 Space Invasion
There are the Genesis a sworn enemy of the House of Luck they are beginning to rage war on the planet.

Vol 6 and 7
In this two-part Volume, there are stories about the Iron Tower that was told to be wrong but the old age is wondering about the story and the weapons that lie there but they, not the only ones. The Phantom Dawns is after those weapons and also after the truth about the dark world also.
This takes place before Roki and Yoki discover each other and also explain what happens to Bridget.
Vol 8
The First Age Arc
Roki sent Fei and his two sisters to the greek world and investigate Loki's whereabouts and Roki was curious about what is Third Keys and what he finds out about the dark world and the dark plains.
Vol 9
The Book of Omens
This is based on the Third keys sega that needs to be made by this arc and you need to read about the Third Keys book that is book 1, book 2, and also book 3 of Third Keys sega.

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While Colin was asking Cour about what really happened with Katrin's yelling and him going Frenzied, Katrin herself was facing a tough situation.
     "You're suspended." Abby concluded after reviewing Katrin's case with all those Desolates and Frenzieds.
     "Suspended?"
     "You don't get missions, you don't get paid, and you don't get access to any J-Knight privileges." Abby explained. "Your Trial will be held in a week. The Court's rather busy these days. Lots of lower-ranking J-Knights are in the same shoes. You're not the only one who's lost Comrades. At least half our Blue Badges and below have been summoned to court."
     "Well…" Katrin scratched her head. "What do I do, then?"
     "Whatever you like. Go rebuild your farm, or compete in Tournaments or work at the Comrade Homes and try to nurse your Desolates back to health." Abby shrugged. 
     "I can do that?" Katrin stared. "If I took care of them, they'll come back to me?"
     "Maybe. It's happened before." Abby paused. "Speaking of Tournaments, there are some big ones coming up, but they're mainly for boys."
     "What?!" Katrin protested. "That's hardly fair!"
     "The thing is, the Mountain Princess just declared a Tournament of Ascension in three nights, and believe it; it's Open."
     "Open?" Katrin echoed.
     "It means any guy out there can compete for the title." Abby said, shaking her head. "When Iylara heard, she, too, announced a similar Tournament, and hers is scheduled for next week."
     "These princesses…" Katrin sighed. 
     "Anyway, Kat, there is one Tournament you might be interested in joining. Zoe said there were too many boys-only Tourneys up and decided to host one of her own tomorrow night. It's only for J-Knight girls, and only those with fewer than ten Comrades. There are prizes for four different rankings; Red, Purple, Blue, and Green and Below."
     "What sort of prizes?" Katrin asked.
     "Your pick of Clira, Comrades, or Import-Link gadgets. For Green and Below ranking, it's either 3000cr, any of four class-7 Tames born to her Comrades, or a Cowgirl Hat with special abilities depending on what color you choose."
     {Green and Below}. Katrin glanced down at her badge, back to Yellow again, and sighed. {That's me.}
     "Sign me up."
***
     "So she was yelling at the J-Knights, not you." Colin summarized as Cour finished his story. "And you went Frenzied to protect her."
     "Rrr." Cour agreed.
     Colin sat back. "I should have guessed. Katrin really isn't the type to yell at Comrades just to let off steam. She'd kick me off a cliff for that. But when Farmer Edward said…"
     Cour growled.
     "Really?" Colin stared. "Why would he…"
     Cour growled some more.
     "Oh." Colin scratched his head. "He's really gotten attached to Katrin, huh…"
     Cour growled a question.
     "It's none of my business, really." Colin answered. "What Katrin wants to do… whether she goes back to farming… that's all up to her."
     Cour growled again.
     "Well, yeah, I guess a friend {would} want to know…" Colin thought about it. "But not now. It's too soon. Maybe after she replies my letter properly."
     There was a short pause during which Colin's comms buzzed. It was May. "Colin? Are you all right? Are you captured?"
     "No, I'm back at my Home Base. It's in the Forest of Legends." Colin explained. "I stopped to help out with a friend and a Frenzied."
     "Oh. Well, come on back. Mom wants to bring us to the bottom of Crystal Cove."
     "Coming."
     Colin took three steps and the world disappeared.
***
     {Colin ran.}
     {Into the trees. Into the forest. There was nowhere else he could go. Desperately, he tried to find a place to hide. The forest was his only protection.}
     {"Hurry!" the voice from his bracer said. "They're…"}
***
     Colin stumbled. "What…?"
     He glanced at his right arm, where just moments ago, it seemed, he had been wearing a white bracer…
     But there was nothing there. No urgent voice. No solid armor. Just a diamond-shaped scar at the back of his wrist.
     A scar he'd gotten when he'd disappeared for a few hours and couldn't remember a thing about what happened. 
     {Was that… a memory? Was that what happened to me? Was I chased by the Green Men? It would make sense… if I had gotten away from them before… they'd want to catch me now…}
     {But why would they be after me in the first place?}
     The voice. The voice from his bracer. Someone had been advising him, guiding him or something. What bracer was that? Pure white, it felt almost plastic, but Colin somehow was sure that it was made of far stronger stuff…
     {Cast Andrium cover. Shadium/Spira composite layer, followed by padding…}
     Colin almost fell over. "Huh? How did I know…?"
     {Needs to be repaired. Need to get to the Higher Plane.}
     "What needs to be repaired?" Colin asked himself in a daze. "Why am I talking and thinking to myself? What's the Higher Plane?"
     {Dreams… within dreams… within dreams. What has Dreamworlds unleashed upon mankind? What has the Hiranin Empire done, creating a Psionic Network like this?! The very dreams and hopes of billions and billions of people across two dozen star systems, all tangled together…}
     That wasn't his voice, Colin realized. It was a memory of someone else's voice, someone else speaking…
     {"Liara. She knows. She KNOWS."}
     Colin found himself sweating, his face flushed, but shivering at the same time. This was it. This was definitely it. The memories he'd lost that night were starting to come back. And he knew that name. Liara. Satrox mentioned her. She was one of the High Council of the Cult of Gaia. A big boss of the Green Men.
     "That's it. They're definitely after me." Colin felt. "It's not Katrin they want and goodness knows where Phillip is. The Green Men are after me. They've been after me all along."
     The Forest. It {meant} something to him. Something more than just a Home Base, or Forester work. It had kept him safe before, somehow. Was it this forest? Or another? Did it matter? In dreams… a forest was a forest. Maybe there was some sort of connection…
     And whatever that connection was, it gave him abilities he never dared imagine. {Even Lynn needed to make an Edict to Pardon a Frenzied. I… I just…}
     And when he did whatever it was he just did, it began to awaken his lost memories. 
     {The answers are here.} Colin looked around. {In the Forest. Somehow, it's as if I've known. As if I've always known. I've always been drawn to the forest. The answers are HERE.}
     But that raised another question. How was he to find them? Pardoning Cour was one thing; Colin felt sure simply going around Pardoning Frenzieds wouldn't help. He wasn't even sure if he could do it again, whether it would work on any Frenzied, or if Cour was a special case.
     Beeping sounded from his watch. Colin glanced at it; on his left hand, not his right… 
     "Colin?" It was May again. "Mom says she can pick you up from Forest Village."
     "Um… yeah… I can do that." Colin still felt a bit dizzy. "Could take me a while, but I'll get there."
     "Great. I'll meet you there, then."
     "You're coming too?" Colin blinked.
     "Yeah. I wanna talk to Professor Jijin."
***
     When Scarlet landed at Forest Village atop a Scarlet Swan about half as large as Shinji's Rain, May had a shipload of Tames to drop off with Jijin. The master breeder who demanded 100 Tames in return for his piece of the Journey's Map seemed quite neutral in regards to things like Wanted bounties and neither friendly nor hostile towards Scarlet or May. When Colin joined them, however, his eyes narrowed.
     "What's taking you so long, boy?" he asked.
     "Huh?" Colin blinked.
     "You haven't sent me a single Tame since the day you began your 100 Tames quest." Jijin pointed out. "On top of that, I don't see any of Michi's stray experiments with you. Weren't you going to find and bond them?"
     "I am." Colin protested. "It's just… well… a lot of things have happened."
     Jijin barked a laugh. "That's what they all say."
     "So?" May, meanwhile poked the professor in the ribs, making him flinch. "Is that enough?"
     "One hundred Tames." Jijin grouched at her. He touched his Traveler Watch, dragged what appeared to be a sliver of light from it, and touched that to her Watch in turn. "The map piece is yours."
     Her watch flashed red. A notification came up. {Map Piece Downloaded. 3/6 pieces found.}
     "Wow. You've gotten a hundred already?" Colin was impressed. "How did you get so many so quickly? Professor Jijin only accepts high class Wilds, and you can't give him two of the same kind, right?"
     "Right." May agreed. "But he accepts subspecies as different kinds. For example, there are three different colors of Groba Lizards outside Soft Snows. Bringing him a Tame of each color counts as three."
     "So…" Colin paused. "If I went back to Lamico and brought a Whitestreak, a Graystreak, a Blackstreak, and a Starstreak Fox… they'd count as four?"
     "Yep." May said. "Just make sure they're Class 8 or higher. He'll only take those."
     "Why don't we do that?" Scarlet suggested. "The J-Knights would be crawling all over the Continent of Eternal Winter looking for us right about now. Let them freeze there while we take a break and travel around."
     Colin hesitated. "It's very generous of you, but…"
     "But…?" May looked at him quizzically. 
     "I'm sorry." Colin told them. "I need to be alone for a bit. I'm going to stay at the Forest a while more. I have some questions that I want to think over."
     "The Three Keys Quest?" Scarlet guessed.
     "Among other things."
     "Well, you did set your Starting Location to our place, right?" May pressed.
     "Um…" Colin thought back. "Yeah."
     "Then just leave it as that, and we'll see you tomorrow night." May suggested. "Meanwhile, I'm going to see if I can get a fourth map piece. It's in Boom City; you have to win an All-You-Can-Eat tournament. It's not very high level; Squirmia should be able to manage."
     "Have fun." Colin wished them well, and watched them go.
     Then he turned around and walked back into the Forest of Legends. {Lynn. I need to find Lynn.}
     There was nobody else who would know the Forest better. If the answers he sought were truly a part of the Forest… {I just hope she's willing to answer my questions before I find an answer to hers.}
     Maybe it would be better to figure out her third question before asking his. Colin thought about it. {What would I add to the Forest?}
     Well, what did the Forest need?
     {The Forest doesn't need anything. It accepts everyone into its shade. Treat it with respect and you can live in harmony with it. Disrespect it, and you suffer the consequences.}
     {It is the same for the mountains… for the seas… it is the same for everything, and everyone. Even the loathsome deserves a standard level of respect to begin with… at least until they lose it by their own deeds or lack thereof.}
     Colin's head swam. He wasn't used to thinking like that. But maybe he was. Something about the way he thought like that felt strangely familiar. As if he'd thought like that before… 
     {Maybe it's from the time I mind-linked with Kyubia…} Colin shook his head. {Or not. She always takes things lightly, everything is play and fun for her. I don't think Kyubia respected anything or anyone short of the other Lords and Lynn. And me. For some reason, she seems to respect me.}
     So if not Kyubia… then it had to be from his lost memories.
     {Why would I be thinking like that? What kind of things would I have been doing that I would think like that?}
     These were not the thoughts of a twelve year old boy . And the fact that he understood that made the truth even more glaring. {I don't think like a twelve year old. Whatever happened to me, it affected the way I THINK.}
     Just like mind-linking with Kyubia did. But while Kyubia's influence faded within the hour, this influence seemed to be there even when he couldn't remember why.
     Colin sat down with his back to a tree. {What did they do to my head?! Who did this? Why?!}
     His only clues were the vague memories of hiding in a forest and that the Cult of Gaia seemed to be hunting for him. {There are things that can only be done in Dreamworlds. Things like wiping memories from a sleeping boy's mind. Things like making him think about things that kids his age wouldn't usually bother about.}
     Again, the voices in his memories echoed.
     {"Dreams… within dreams… within dreams. What has Dreamworlds unleashed upon mankind?"}
     And that brought back more recent memories.
     {Dreams within dreams… it sounds like what happened to me when Hot Sands flooded.} Colin remembered the terror. That… {thing}… he met. And he was saved by a figure of light… a figure that had pulled him to safety… with a human hand. 
     Shiro and Raiki were there too, Colin remembered. But only Shiro and Raiki. 
     That drew another connection. {The Chasm of Winds. The place Shinji was afraid to enter. What did they call it? The Ancient Ways? Shiro and Raiki were the only ones among my Comrades who could enter it. M1, Kyria, and M2, Midnight were there too. Only Michi's breedings could enter. There's something special about them… something special about the Ancient Ways… and it seems to connect to those Dreams Within Dreams… and to my missing memories… and to this scar on my right hand… and to my unusual abilities… and to the Forest…}
     Okay, maybe he was overthinking it. Maybe some of those connections were coincidences. But still… there was a lot to go on. Colin had questions piled on questions. Only now was he beginning to be able to put the pieces together.
     {Why did Michi give me Shiro?}
     That question came round full circle and hit him in the face. He asked her before, and she said {"To the Kat, I gave a cat. To the lost, I gave one to help him find his way…"}
     Why would Michi even think of Colin as 'lost'... unless she knew something about him that he himself did not?
     But she gave Raiki to Katrin as well… did that mean that Katrin, too, was in trouble? That the Green Men hunted her just as they did him?
     {What am I saying? They're hunting all three of us, Katrin and Phillip and me, because we're the last three of the Eight who started on that night. What if it's not about my lost memories? What if simply STARTING on that night is what caused all this? What happened that night…? Something unusual…?}
     {Well, the most unusual thing that happened was that Michi gave us Shiro and Raiki.}
     Was that it then? The Green Men were after Colin and Katrin because of Michi?! That would bring everything back to the Ancient Ways, because only Michi's breedings could go in there… but wouldn't that tie in with that Dream Within Dream at Hot Sands? And that meant that Colin's lost memories too, were inevitably involved.
     "There's no way out." Colin said to himself as his thoughts came full circle. {No matter how I look at it… I'm stuck with it.}
     He got up and kicked a stone on the forest floor. "I'm tired of running and hiding and being hunted. I need to know what's going on. And I need to do something about it."
     {Grand thoughts, for a twelve year old boy who can't even remember what happened.}
     "Hey, I gotta do {something}." Colin said. "When we got involved with Lamico, we didn't just sit around talking and hoping everyone would just get along eventually. We {did} something… we ended the civil war…"
     {I practically destroyed the entire continent.}
     "They were burning the forest and the Wilds! They were burning my friends alive!" Colin protested. "What am I doing? I'm arguing with myself! Aloud!"
     {But what were they really burning? Artificial 'animal' intelligences programmed by Dreamworlds Admin to be playthings for children?}
     {No. Something more. Those Wilds… MY Wilds had hurt. They really suffered. I could feel their pain…}
     {But how?! How does creatures that exist only in Dreamworlds feel anything? How would they even know what pain really is?!}
     Raiki nudged him with her nose. [Calm down. You're going to give yourself a headache.]
     "A headache would be the least of my concerns." Colin sat down again and looked Raiki in the eyes. "Raiki… what {are} you?"
     Raiki sat down facing him. Her whiskers twitched. [A stormcat juvenile, last I checked. You can scan me again if you want.]
     "That's not what I meant. I mean… in a Dreamworld like this… all the Wilds and Comrades are… well… alive. Sort of." Colin scratched his head. "I mean… what are Comrades?"
     [What are Dreamers? What are Travelers?] Raiki asked right back. 
     "We're humans who wear the Dreamworlds Headset when we go to sleep. All of this happens in our dreams." Colin gestured around. "It's… not real."
     [What is 'real'?] Raiki asked.
     "Things that we can see, and touch, and feel…" Colin trailed off, staring. 
     Raiki said no more, simply letting him gape.
     {I can see her. I can touch her. I can feel her. Raiki… is 'real'. Dreamworlds… in a way… is real.}
     "But it's not… {permanent}. Whatever happens here… it can be reset, just like that. When we die here, we just respawn." Colin struggled with issues he'd never even considered before. "I mean…"
     [Slow down.] Raiki said again. {You don't have to figure out everything all at once. The mysteries and truths of all universes can wait, 42 or otherwise.]
     "Huh?" Colin was blur. "What do you mean, 42?"
     [Never mind.] Raiki padded over and sat on Colin's lap. Colin found himself stroking her quite naturally. [We are friends. That's what matters, in the end.]
     "Friends." Colin went on stroking Raiki, feeling the soft fur, and the slight electric tingle of the Stormcat's aura. "I guess we are, at that. That's what 'Comrades' mean, right?"
     [Something like that. We don't need to get technical.] Raiki purred. [Let's just take things as they come.]
     "It's a nice thought, Raiki, but I can't." Colin said. "I've got to do something. I can't just wait for them to find me and then just run away again."
     [What do you intend to do? Hunt them?]
     Colin thought about that. 
     "Yeah."

In Dreamworlds, a telepathic network where billions of dreamers share their dreams, a freak accident steals a boy away from his family for several hours. 13 year old Colin awakes with no memory of those hours, but in Dreamworlds, the scars he still bears prove that something had happened.

His father brings him and a select group of friends to a new Dreamworld the very next night - the one Dreamworld in all the Network that allowed children to roam free, obtain a sort of power, and face the responsibilities involved. A Dreamworld where children Travel with and care for animal Comrades, a Dreamworld meant for children to grow and mature without parents looking over their shoulders all the time.

There Colin explores friendship like he never had before... and finds that it could be the only thing he could count on to protect him.

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