div dir="auto"span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" The dazzle of a summer sun was enough to blind even the tall peduncles of every plant littering the field beneath broad soles and dark leather. Extensive crimson locks cascading from under a large-brimmed hat glowed a bittersweet red against the beams of the setting sun./spanbr style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /br style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;"span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /spanWith only the shade of a nearing tree and the brim of dense head wear to keep the roll of sweat at bay. consequently, the true reality being questioned or simply a harsh dream in a far off land that he shoved to the very edge of his subconscious beckoned a mitigated query. A mouthed question, his lips moved, but not a word passed them. No sonorous inquiry poisoned the heavens with doubt and disillusion./spanbr style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /br style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;"Have I been here before?/spanbr style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /br style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;"span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /spanHe was sure it was a dream. A question without words, the familiarity in the small breeze. The pure depletedness of an outstretched horizon covered in dried reeds. The ominous sensation of an overwhelming dread threatened to extirpate his chest of any and all oxygen./spanbr style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /br style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;"span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /spanStifled air, the contraction of his body against silken sheets; accordingly jouncing forward, eyes, broad with dismay and a cold sweat rolling from his chin. How had such a serene delusion filled him with such terror?/spanbr style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /br style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;"span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /span" I need a drink," a susurrated voice as the redhead turned and rose to his feet. Nevertheless, the lodging around him became obscured by total darkness. An indistinguishable dread like the very one pulled from his slumber washed over the toned frame of Cross Marian./spanbr style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /br style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;" /span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;"Was someone there with him, shrouded in the darkness?/span/div