A bright yellow-red sun was slowly going down at the horizon. A few shades of pink were coloring the sky. Red and yellow sunshines were piercing the blu ocean, giving to it beautifuls reflections of the sunset. Each one of those colors were adding a touch of enchantment to the dream landscape in front of Caroline. The sea was doing small waves on the sand of the beach. A few hummingbirds were flying around the beach. One of them land on Caroline's shoulder. Caroline turned away from the sunset to the hummingbird on her shoulder.

"Hey, there."

The hummingbird started to whisle a soft and slow air. The little bird fly away and Caroline looked at it moving away and the little form faded at the horizon.

The wind started to blow strongly, raising the sand into squalls. Every hummingbirds, that were flying peacefully a few seconds ago, turned into black shades, leaving the sky lighted by a few red points. The sand, covered with the dead bodies of the ravens, become a black hole, drawing up everything around Caroline slowly. The landscape that had been so dream-like a few minutes ago had turned into a nightmare.

Caroline pushed on every muscles of her bodies despite of the tiredness that had suddently came over her. Every time she tried to took a step away from the black hole, she feel like she was drown deeper in the hole. She knew it was the end. She was going to fall in the hole and certainly never will come back.

Just when Caroline though that all hope was gone, a hand pop out of nowhere.

« Take my hand ! » A voice resound around the black hole. « Hurry up, take it ! »

Last thing she knew, Caroline took the foreign hand and everything fade out.

Caroline emerged from her dreamy state and got straight up in her bed. She took several needy breathes, trying to recover from the dream, or more nightmare, she just had. Caroline put a hand on her chest, feeling her heartbeat slowly becoming calm again.

What was this ? Never Caroline had had a dream that seemed so... real. It seemed as real as the world she was in, and it was almost scaring.

Caroline heard in her head the soft tune that the humminbird had whistled at her ears. And then she heard the foreign man's voice, yelling at her to take his hand. The hummingbird's whistle was the calm before the storm.

Caroline suddently felt the urgent need to look at the window, almost as if her life was depending on it. Caroline got up rfom the bed and, as she moved closer to the window, shock and fear deformed Caroline's features.

On the horizon, you could see the most casual of the sunset. So far, it was normal, nothing to be shocked about. What make Caroline frightened was the raven that was at the edge of her windows. The raven that was removing roughly the entrails and the guts of a little hummingbird.

The raven suddently turned his head to Caroline. The black feathers of the sinister bird were covered with a bloody red and his dark pupils were injected with blood. The obscure beak of the raven was holding a tiny heart. The raven fly off, leaving the heart aside his dead owner.

Caroline approached the dead form to see the little hummingbird lying in a pool of blood. A large but precise incision could be seen on the belly of the bird.

A sob escaped Caroline's mouth. How could the raven be so cruel toward the little hummingbird ? And how come the raven and the hummingbird, two creatures Caroline had saw in her nightmare, were in the real world and in her house ?

Caroline took the dead hummingbird in the palms of her hands. A weird feeling went through her body at the touch of the bird. What could she do ? She couldn't left the hummingbird in her house. It may seemed weird, but she felt the need to bury the little bird.

She went to the back of her house and started ro dig a hole large enough to contain the body of the little bird. She put the dead form into the hole but, before that she could feel the hole, Caroline heard a noise behind her. She slowly turned around, afraid of who or what could be behind her. A young man stood in front of her. At the first sight, nothing could have differentiate him from the 'normal' people. However, if you looked closer... His eyes. His eyes make him different. He had narural black eyes, but what make his eyes different were the numerous touches of yellow lighting up his eyes. A smile appeared on the face of the young man. He moved closer to Caroline and stared at her blue eyes.

« Are you Caroline Forbes ? »

Even though Caroline didn't want to answer the man, she did nodded, confirming the fact that she was indeed Caroline.

« Good. » The young man stared at Caroline and his pupils dilated. « Your dreams... They are reals, they just doesn't happen in this dimension. Every time you will sleep, you will get into this unknown world. Be aware of the danger that Mikael is. But don't be afraid Caroline because you won't be alone. He will help you. » The stranger moved away from Caroline. « You cannot trust everyone. »

The unknown man leaved a confused and speechless Caroline without another word.

Caroline may be speechless, but, inside of her, several questions were rushing into her mind and were already tormenting her : Her dreams were happening in another dimension ? If so, they were others dimensions ?! And who was the man that was supposed to help her ? Who was Mikael ? What danger could he could he possibly be to her ?

Caroline sighed and looked down at the little hole she had dig before the arrival of the weird man. Surprise filled Caroline's eyes when she didn't see the dead hummingbird. When she had started to dig, Caroline had delicately put the dead bird aside her, and he was now nowhere to be found. Another question made her way to Caroline's brain : Where was the hummingbird ?