A/N: A stray idea I had about five minutes ago. Really short, I know. It's a good thing I have the Golem's Eye in my possession, or I wouldn't have been able to remember hardly any of it. Really need to reread those books...
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In her apartment, Kitty tossed and turned in her bed. She was dreaming of that day again...
"Youre a smart girl. Off you go and leave him to die."
"Oh hell,"
Then Kitty was running again past Jakob and toward the lumbering golem. Ignoring the pain and numbness in her shoulder, her friend's shouts, and the voices in her head ridiculing her actions, she saw herself leaping upon the bonnet of the limousine, running along it, level with the monster. It's third, intelligent eye was fixed on Mandrake's body, and Kitty jumped upon the golem's back. She reached into the beast's mouth, feeling for the manuscript...
Then she was falling toward the ground...
Her eyes flew open as she was snatched from the reality of the dream, based on what had happened years ago. As her labored breath evened out, she wondered why she always dreamed about that night. What was it about it that continued to haunt her?
She remembered falling onto the young magician's body, the golem's face right above her. She remembered the third eye's intelligence dimming, the monster growing stiff and lifeless as she held the yellow scroll in her left hand. She remembered her walking away after Jakob with her shoulder bleeding, Bartimaeus staring after her.
But it never got to that part. It always ended with her falling...
Why couldn't she just have sweet dreams for once?
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