This chap is short. But the next one will be a flash back.

Arya lay awake that night. Sleep would not come to her. She stared at the ceiling. Why couldn't she sleep? Something was wrong. Arya stepped from her home and into the dimly lit Ellesmera. There was something in the atmosphere she could sense it. It was depressing and dark. She stared into the trees searching for an answer, but they did not give her one.

"Arya!"

She turned to see Nari sprinting towards her. There was horror in his eyes.

"Something horrible has happened."

Her eyes grew wide. "No. . ."

"He conjured it. The horse . . . the horse from his nightmares, from the darkness recesses of his mind . . . the shadow horse. He is turning into something inhuman Arya. This war, his memories wherever he went has changed him."

Arya stared at Nari. "How do you know?"

"The eyes of the forest they caught a glimpse of it as it emerged from the shadows. He's conjured the Gruwel."

Roland what has happened to your mind? What are you becoming?

Elva sat on the floor of Nasuada's room. She was drawing things in water on the stone. Nasuada was talking with Trianna when she looked over to Elva who was staring at the window. She looked out the window and saw nothing, but Elva stared intently out of it.

"What is it, Elva?"

"Shhh . . ." the child brought a finger to her lips. "Something wicked rides this way a horse not of this life, but from someplace dark and evil, but his rider's heart is pure, but the rider's mind is clouded. It is filled with horrible things from his past. He is not well."

"Why is he coming here?" Nasuada's voice was filled with worry.

"He brings good news."

"Do you know the good news?"

"He is keeping it hidden. He knows of me, but he has clouded his mind. Many barriers and I can not get through them."

Roland kept awake. He had to make it to Surda. He could feel himself ebbing away into something different. Roland could feel himself changing. He did not stop it, but he let it eat at him. It ate away at his emotions, his heart everything that in him was considered human was gone. His mind had gone away to a memory from long ago. It something a very old, but wise man had said to him.

Flashback is up next to explain what is happening to Roland.