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Chapter Nine

"Rose? Did she- did miss Karp hit your shoulder in the dream?" Lissa asked, her voice shaking.

I looked into her eyes and nodded. I didn't trust my voice.

Christian spoke. "If that's true then... if she killed you in the dream then..."

"She'd kill me in real life." I finished for him.

"But would it work vice versa? If you killed her, she would die too," Dimitri said. "if you had a stake on-"

I interrupted him. "That would work but how would I get a hold of a stake? She controls the dream, and I don't think she'd let me wander around with a stake in hand."

"Then we have to kill her," he said. "Before she can hurt you."

"In the dream she said that i would see her sooner than I'd think. So we have to be prepared." I said to everyone.

"The sooner we're back at court, behind the wards, the better." Lissa said.

"Cause we all know how safe they were last time." Christian said- he had a point.

I took a deep breath. "Ok guys the suns setting now- we should probably go over to find nick."

They all nodded in agreement. We got ready to leave- probably wouldn't be coming back. I wondered what we'd tell his mother? She was a Moroi- a Conta, one of the smaller royal families.

I grabbed the address as we headed out.

We flagged down a cab and left to see the new Dragomir.

As we got out, on a very lonerish street, we confronted the house. It was massive! Apparently Eric Dragomir knew how to pay child support. It was a three story house, a light shade of grey. All the curtains were closed- understandable seeing as it was pretty late. We walked up to the door- only to discover it was open. The handle had been broken off. I was immediately in guardian mode. I motioned for Dimitri to stay behind the others, and keep a look out. I pushed the door open, causing it to creak slightly. After checking that the cost was clear, I turned on the hall light. I walked into the living room, and the sight nearly made me puke. Nicks mother was lying dead on the couch. A note was left, lying next to her. Dimitri and the others were still waiting in the hall, so they didn't see this. I walked slowly towards her, and picked up the note. It was written in blood.

I told you I controlled the dream, as well as what happens in the real world.

D

B

C

O

T

D

V

L

D

Z

S

I

Miss Karp. I gasped as I remembered the list of letters- because I had seen it before. Back when Christian and I had gone to bring back mason, we went through a corridor, and these letters had been on the wall. They stood for the royal families- B for Badica, Z for Zeklos... I remembered that on the wall the letters B and D had an x beside them. Badica and Drozdov.

C was next in line- Conta.

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