It's been a long few days.

I've barely slept at all and when I do, I hear screams of someone. I don't know who it is but they keep screaming the name John, as in John Smith. It's male's voice and he sounds as if he is in pain. I try to reach out and call back but no one responds. I'm left to float in darkness and just hear the screams and the laughing of the leader.

I'm visibly shaken by everything that I've seen and heard. I just wish...there was someway that I could contact the Garde to let them know that I'm okay. That I know what's going on and I know what will happen. I wish that I could contact them in their minds...all I want is contact. Now that the leader is here, it's most important that we find each other before someone else dies.

I'm so exhausted that I can barely hear the waitress asking if I want more coffee. I simply nod and she refills my cup. Blake decided that we needed to get out for a bit, maybe a change of scenery will help my nightmares. He's taken me for brunch and then he suggests that we go bowling and then catch a movie. I try to smile at him, I really appreciate what he's trying to do but there's nothing he can do to change my visions. This leader has control of my mind and he enjoys watching me suffer. I take slow sips of my coffee and try to keep my eyes low.

"What?" I ask softly, missing what Blake said.

"I said what movie do you want to see? Unknown with Liam Neeson or Just Go With It with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston?"

"Whichever you want" I say rubbing my eyes. "To be honest, I don't think I'll ever be able to enjoy anything unless I get some sleep."

"I could put you in a cab and I'll go to the movie"

I lower my voice. "You know I won't let you do that. One wrong move and I'm running for my life to find you..." I pause. "I'm not saying you're a burden but it takes only one spy to bring an entire army on our asses."

"Alright..." Blake says and he signals the waitress for the check.

I spend the next few hours in an action packed thriller movie that is not even remotely close to the kind of action I get in my daily life. I end up just resting my eyes and head on Blake's shoulder.

I have time to think. If my visions serve me right, the other Garde are trying to come together, granted slowly but they are on the way. I know I need to meet up with them, We are more powerful together and with the leader now on Earth, its now or never. But the problem is I have no idea where the Garde are, let alone how contact them.

I let my mind wander for a bit. I think of Annie and how she would know what our next move was going to be. She always had answers, that was what Annie was like. I think of Lorien, our beautiful planet that was destroyed by the Mogs and how only several children escaped to tell their tale. I wonder how only nine of us made it here alive...I thought about whether it was random or not. To me, my presence on the ship seemed to be random. Annie had told me that we had been branded and connected through the Charm, which meant we could only be killed in a certain order. This told me that it might've been planned in some way for the nine of us to make it off the planet. Did the elders know that Lorien would end and the only hope was to send nine children with their Cepans to Earth? Relying ever inch of hope on five and six year old children that were...are being hunted by a rival alien race.

I reach my hand into my shirt and find my pendant. These things have a connection to our elders, that much I learned on my own but with Annie gone, everything else Loric is now left up to me. I don't want to become a nerd like her but knowledgeable about our planet and heritage. That also included...

My Chest.