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Two hours later...

I take in my surroundings dazedly. The tall, dead-looking trees surround me on all sides. Their wide, claw-like branches spread towards me like a beast's talons. Every step I take is loud. Crunching through every leaf like crushed porcelain and glass, echoing throughout the surrounding area like a haunting beacon. It is eerily quiet. My own breath is the only sound for miles, other than the incessant crunching of leaves being demolished under my feet. Where am I?

Where is Kael? And Hemi? And Joss?

I limp through the foliage and branches and brambles. Why am I limping? Why does my chest hurt so badly?

I don't recognize any of these trees. Not a landmark in sight is familiar. How could I have gone so far by myself? Why can't I feel Faraway?

I suddenly shiver uncontrollably, to the point where my teeth are slamming against each other as they chatter and my body trembles. I feel like I will faint or vomit. I am forced to grip one of the menacing, sickly looking trees to keep from falling over. Where am I!?

"Kael! Joss! Faraway!" I cry helplessly.

I only hear the echo of my own pathetic cry in response. I try to fight back the hysteria that is creeping in. I have to find my way back to camp. I need to get back!

"Please, someone help me!" I yell. My voice cracks painfully because of my aching throat. I'm so scared I can't think clearly. Why am I so terrified? I can't explain it. Kael wouldn't panic in this situation. He would use logic and reason to find his way out. Though it was highly unlikely that Kael had ever lost his way in a creepy, dark forest at all. There was just something wrong here. It was so shadowy and cold. So dark. I feel as if the very manifestation of fear itself is surrounding me in these woods. I feel a thousand little beady eyes on me at once, yet I can't see a single living creature but myself.

And suddenly the forest is spinning around me. Shrinking. Whirling. Falling. Writhing. A horrible, shrieking wind is shaking the very earth below and above me.

I fall to me knees and cover my eyes in terror. Tears pour out of my eyes. I'm scared. So, so scared.

"Stop! Please, stop! Please! No more. Make it stop!" I wail, curling up in the brittle, dead leaves on the ground. I rock myself. Faster and faster the wind blows! Louder it shrieks!

The howling wind turns into the agonizing screams of each and every prisoner that had been placed on the Iron Butterfly, including mine.

I sob harder, screaming along with them. "NO! No! Nooo!" I wail.

The horrifying screams turn into desperate, terrified pleas for help.

"HELP US! SAVE US, THALIA! DON'T LEAVE US TO DIE! DON'T LET THEM KILL US, THALIA!"

I let out a horrified whimper and cover my ears instead.

"SAVE US. SAVE US. SAVE US." The horrid voices cry. "HELP US. SAVE US! THALIA!"

"Aaeeeeaaah!" I scream.

"DON'T LET THEM HURT US ANYMORE, THALIA. SAVE US!"

"SAVE US!"

"SAVE US!"

"I CAN'T!" I yell through my burning, salty tears, "I can't! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" I weep.

The voices and cries become louder and louder. So loud. So terrified. So much wind. It hurts my ears. I feel like I am going deaf. Or the only thing I will ever hear is the wailing of the dead, murdered on the Iron Butterfly. Or all I will ever see is the inky, whirling darkness of the wailing winds and flailing, sickly trees.

And suddenly it stopped.

Just like that. Like nothing had happened at all.

It was quiet again. The wind was gone. I peel open my sore, crusted eyes.

I'm not in the forest anymore.

It was light again. I am in a wide, lush meadow. It's beautiful. My fear fades away and is replaced by warmth and security. I smile.

"Thalia."

I jump and whirl around. Who said that? I see no one.

"Thaaaliaa."

The voice breathed softly. It was gentle and youthful and melodic. I feel the intense need to follow it. Something about it was impossibly important. I just knew it.

"Where are you?" I called, looking around in vain.

"The crystal pools... find the pool."

I spun slowly in a circle, searching for a pool of any kind. And I think I know where it is.

I hear a faint, soothing dripping, and I'm sure that's it. I step lightly through the plush, dewy meadow grass and follow. I see it almost immediately. My breath is taken away.

The "crystal pools" surely live up to their name. I see three of the clearest, most beautiful water holes I have ever visited. They look to be six to seven feet deep each and I can see straight to the bottom. There are little blue and green stones underneath their lovely depths that glitter and shine like precious gems. It is the loveliest sight I have ever seen. Each pool is on a different level- a small, gentle waterfall leading to the next one. I want to leap into those beautiful waters and never come out.

"Thalia..."

I jerk my eyes down, and I see a girl resting delicately on a stone beside the lowest, largest pool. She turns her head and gives me a gentle smile. I gasp. She is achingly familiar, yet I am sure that we have never met. And she can't be more than 13. She has soft, long, buttercup yellow hair, her small smile reveals deep little dimples on each cheek, and her eyes are an exquisite shade of sea green.

I know those eyes...

"I am Tenya."

I jump with a start, shock rushes through my veins. "You're Tenya? Joss's Tenya?" I gasp.

She giggles lightly at my surprise. "What other Tenya would you visit in your dreams, Thalia?"

I jerk back. "No... this- this is a dream? None of this is real?" I sputter.

She stands easily- slowly. Like we have all the time in the world. "But of course. You could not find me otherwise."

I step towards her quickly, my senses returning to me. "Tenya, where are you? Do you recognize anything familiar? Have they told you anything? Are you alright?" The words rush out as soon as they come to mind.

She shakes her head at me slightly, a little frown tugging at her small lips. "I am here. You can see me, can you not?"

I let out a frustrated huff. "Of course I can, Tenya! But you need to tell me where they took you! Do you remember anything? Were you drugged? Have they told you anything?" I am worried and becoming frantic.

She frowns harder, a little wrinkle appearing between her slender, blonde brows. "I do not know where my physical form is. I have resided in this world for many days. But when I am not in this place... the other dwelling is horrible... It is like I am in Heaven here, then dragged back to their Hell. With men in blood robes and the lightning machine. I will have to go back very soon."

I shake my head in utter confusion. "What? You aren't making any sense, Tenya. What do you mean you're here sometimes, then there? Where is here? When do you have to go back? Are they putting you on the machine?" Fear is clawing its way into my stomach.

Her expression suddenly darkens. In fact, the whole world gets darker. Colder. Uglier.

"They are pulling me back."

Panic crashes into my chest. "No! No, Tenya, stay with me! Okay? Don't go back! Stay here!"

She shakes her head slowly, her eyes becoming glassy and vacant. The vibrant green ebbs out of them like drastically fading water colors. Everything about her is ebbing away.

"I am going back. I will not see you again for a while, Thalia. Take care of my brother."

"NO!" I scream. "No, Tenya! Don't!" But she is fading faster and faster. The whole world is fading faster. The beauty is being eaten away all around me- sucked into an endless vacuum of black.

In desperation, I lunge at her, trying to cling to her disappearing form. But Tenya is being dragged away from me by an evil, unseen force. Her expression is lifeless, uncomprehending- like she is no longer a part of her ghost-like apparition.

"TENYA! Tenya, no!" I cry.

She is dragged farther and farther away from me. I chase after her, stumbling and tripping over invisible obstacles. The world is being consumed by the hungry, freezing darkness. I continue to run. Another voice is invading my thoughts, but I force myself to ignore it. I must save Tenya! But the voice is getting louder...

"Thalia! Stop!" It says.

I can't. I can't! I continue to run after the fading force that ripped Joss's sister from my grasp.

"Thalia!"

I ignore it again. I am so close! So close to her. I can almost reach her. Just one more step into the darkness, and I'll have her-

"THALIA!"

I jerked awake, terrified. There were two large arms wrapped tightly- painfully- around my stomach, yanking me backwards. I tried to crane my neck to see what was happening. Kael's panicked blue eyes met mine.

"Thalia?" He whispered, panting heavily. He was covered in sweat, like he had been running non-stop for several miles.

"Y-yes?" I whimpered, trying to wrap my mind around what had just happened to me.

"Are you awake now?" He asked, continuing to gingerly step backwards. I suddenly wondered why he was holding me like this. Why he was being so careful with his steps. I turned my head around, looking to see what we were backing away from.

I realized two horrifying things in that moment.

One, I had been sleepwalking.

And two... I almost just ran right off a cliff.

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