At around three-thirty on Wednesday, November 16, Addie Bennett awoke in a cold sweat. For the third night in a row she'd had the same horrible dream. Several flashes of lightning. The sky was dark and stormy. Somewhere a woman was screaming "You can't do this to me! I am…" the woman was interrupted by a thunderclap and the world once again went dark. Next came the worst part. "Honey," a voice said, but this voice wasn't at all like the first woman's. This voice was dark and seemed to draw you in. Just listening was enough to make Addie sure that she didn't like her. "If you want to save your mother…" She always woke up just before she found out how to help her mother. Which mother were they talking about anyway? 'Cause if it was Shannon," she thought to herself "I wouldn't really want to save her, but what if it wasn't Shannon who the dream was talking about? No, my real mom is dead. She can't be saved." Sighing she went back to sleep. "At least tomorrow's Saturday, no school on Saturday, " Addie told herself.
"Addie! Get down here! Taye needs help with her homework!" Shannon called pulling Addie from her dreamless sleep.
"Shannon, I'm dyslexic, how exactly am I supposed to help her?"
"Just do something! I'm too busy making dinner for all of you."
Shannon, that horrible woman, was Addie's current foster mom. Current, but probably not for much longer. For some reason Addie kept getting kicked out of schools. It was always the same thing, she would do something (most of the time it was just self-defense against whatever horrible thing her classmates had come up with. ) Mr. Brunner her social worker would come, he would give her that look, that "I'm so disappointed in you," look. Recently, though, she had begun to notice something. It wasn't simply an "I'm so disappointed in you," look. The was also an undertone of, something. Once she even heard him shake his head and say "She may even beat Percy." Okay, Percy who? Was he some other orphan that misbehaved? Pondering this, she started to descend the stairs when suddenly everything went black.
"She was in a room, trapped with no way out. She was sitting at a table, in front of her was a woman that looked extremely like her. The same boring brown eyes, somehow on her they looked stunning. Her dark hair curled the same way as Addie's, princess curls one of the younger boys at school, Isaac the sixth grader who was always hitting on her, had told her. There was no doubt about it. She was astonishingly beautiful. "I know what you need. I will help. But first you have to do something for me. Find the other two at your school, meet them by the library. You shall know that it is truly them for they will know to meet you there, go to camp, then get a quest to come and save me. if you don't this will be the end for both of us."