Chapter 1: New Place

It was another sleepless night for Lilly. She woke up in the middle of the night having another nightmare. They were always the same, she saw her friends being hurt, or herself, and there was nothing she could do to stop it. Every time she fell asleep they started, and she found herself getting less and less sleep each night. This night was the worst ones yet, she woke up in a cold sweat, and on the verge of tears.

"That's it! I'm going out for a walk. I can't sleep anyway." Lilly thought to herself as she walked out of her room in the barracks. She stepped outside and looked up at the sky. It was a crystal clear night. "Well, maybe I ought to just sit on the roof. It's the perfect night for it, just like the nights when I was little." She jumped up to the roof, deciding to lie down instead of sit. She stared up at the stars and rested her head on her hands. She had always loved clear nights like this. She found the quiet beauty of the stars and moon to be very relaxing on those nights when she couldn't sleep. She was staring up at the full moon when she felt her eye lids get heavy, she resisted the sleep fearing the nightmares that she knew would come, but still, she felt her eyes close and she passed out.

She started waking up when she felt sunlight hit her face. She sat up trying to rub the sleep out of her eyes, and then felt something cold brush against her cheek. She jumped and looked around, realizing that she was lying on the snowy ground in the middle of a forest. "What the-?" She almost yelled, starting to panic a little. "How the heck did I end up here?"

Lilly stood up, looking around. She had no clue where she was, though she had the sneaking suspicion that she was somewhere in the world of the living, but she wasn't sure where. She tried to build up her spiritual pressure to jump up and get an aerial view, but realized that she could barely use it. Thoroughly confused she started looking around, and then noticed the back of her left hand. On it she found a black crescent moon shaped mark that had started glowing faintly when she tried to use her spiritual pressure. She concluded that the mark must have been some sort of seal, but who would want to seal her? She looked around again, now even more nervous.

At that moment she decided that there was no point in actually staying there, so she started walking. Then Lilly noticed that her outfit had changed too. She was in normal human clothes, a black trench coat, dark grey hoodie, jeans, and black heeled boots. It was her style, but she hadn't been wearing it last night. "This is weird… I don't remember coming here… I don't even remember falling asleep…" She muttered to herself as she started walking again. She was contemplating whether this was a dream or not, when she heard what she thought was children laughing. She quickly decided to follow the sound hoping to try to piece together where she was.

After awhile of walking Lilly reached the edge of the forest and saw a small town. She hesitantly walked toward a street hoping to talk to someone. She tried multiple times to flag someone down, only to find that they didn't notice her, and then she finally realized that they couldn't see her. "Great." She thought to herself. "Now what am I going to do?" Seeing as how she was going to get nowhere with staying there, she walked back into the forest, deciding to do some exploring.