That night Melissa had a terrifying dream. She was standing right in the middle of a burning building. Flaming debris was falling to the ground all around her, the worst part was she couldn't move, it was like her feet were glued to the ground. She screamed as a particularly huge chunk of debris landed right on her, but she didn't feel anything. The scene changed.
She saw a man in some sort of protective clothing pointing a gun right at her. She would have screamed in terror had it been real but instead her dream self just laughed and pressed a button. An explosion of reddish light followed and the scene changed yet again.
She was standing in front of a desk. An older man sat behind it, he looked sad as can be. Without reason she began shouting at the man, but she couldn't hear anything, she only felt anger and sadness. Another flash of light, white this time, and then everything went black.
She awoke with a start, it took her a few seconds to realize that nothing that had just happened was real, it was just a dream. She wiped the sweat off of her face and sat up. When her legs finally felt like they could hold her again she got out of bed and shakily walked to the closet on the other side of her temporary room. She had unpacked the day before and had put away all her clothes neatly before going to bed, the time change was really taking its toll on her.
She dressed and went to the main room where L and Near were sitting, each looked deep in thought. She guessed that they had been talking about something complicated before she had walked in. She collapsed on the couch and sighed, seeing L had reminded her of the mysterious traveler in the group. She wanted to know who had a paranormal ability like hers so bad she just couldn't stop thinking about it.
"Sleep badly?"
"Huh?" Melissa was roused from her reverie by L's voice.
"Did you sleep badly? You don't look very rested to me. I'm 76 percent sure that you did not have a restful night, did you?"
"Not really. I had a few nightmares. I don't wanna think about it right now." Had she been a little more awake she would have noticed something eerily peculiar about her dream.
She didn't notice what was wrong with the dream until later that day, when Matt and Mello were out and Near was nowhere to be seen. When she did realize she immediately ran to the room that L and Near were sharing. L was sitting on one of the beds licking a sucker and examining an important looking paper. He set it down as soon as she came into the room.
"L, can I ask you a question about travelers?"
"Of course, thought there's only an 83 percent chance I'll know the answer, but ask anyways."
"Can travelers transmit dreams to others while they're asleep?" L leaned back and thought for a moment.
"Its possible, though they would have no control over it for they would be unconscious. I imagine that they would only be able to share dreams with scenes from someone's past in them. Why? Did you have a dream of your past?"
"Hard to say, I don't remember the dream I had last night," she lied. "All I remember is a monster chasing me. I asked the traveler question out of pure curiosity." She walked out of L's room and into her own. She sat on the bed and started thinking hard.
She had a pretty good guess of who the traveler in the group was, and she was pretty sure they were showing signs of their powers now, even if they didn't realize it. Now all she needed to do was figure out a way to test her theory.