I ran into the house and faked a yawn. "Mom? Can I go to sleep now?"

Mom yelled from the kitchen. "You done your homework yet?"

Dang it. I sighed, "No…"

"Do it first."

I grumbled and stomped up the stairs into my room. I put the bag with the dreamtalk onto my bed and tugged my homework book out of my backpack.

"Lets see…" I murmured flipping though the pages. "Aha!" I found the page today's homework. Yes! I yelled internally, "Only math today!" Then I frowned. "And again, I hate math…"

I shoveled my math textbook out of my school bag and plopped it onto my desk, flipping to page 78. "Ugh…" I grumbled, looking over the questions…

A few minutes later…

"Finally, done!" I slouched down on my chair, almost throwing my pencil out the window. I twisted my head to look at the dreamtalk. I sighed and walked over to my bed, taking out the blue star along the way. "Well I am tired."

I lie down on my bed and tried to remember how to do it again. Holding the jewel atop, I imagined the gold dragon. Good thing I examined it carefully. Then I stopped and remembered something that Mom had told me. The person that you dreamtalk with may see where you are.

"Hmm," I thought aloud. "Maybe I could go to the burned village, so that she knows that I can meet her there? Well I certainly do not want her trampling into my room to talk."

I took my bag and dropped the dreamtalk inside, then climbed out the window again, this time racing to the exit of our underground routes and caves. When I was at the entrance, I reviewed the instructions again. Go forth at the large oak, then left at the pile of purple reeds… Following the landmarks and paths, I found myself back at the charred buildings.

Taking the dreamtalk out of my bag, I curled to a small niche that was somewhat hidden, then imagined the gold dragon, closed my eyes, and lifted the jewel to my head.

I appeared in a desert, with the sun beating down and…a giant gold dragon?

"Ah!" I yelped in surprise, and apparently she did too. It was the same dragon that was at the ruins, with, another person on her shoulder. She looked like Rose, and I can tell because Mom and Dad told me about her, with a lot of description.

The gold dragon tilted her head and took a step toward me, and for some reason, I stepped forward too, holding out my hand. I pointed at Rose. "Are you Rose, Leafa's sister? Do you know this dragon? Why are you sitting on her shoulder?"

I saw the gold dragon flare her wings in surprise, then she flicked her tail-

Wait, what?

Her tail didn't have a poison barb like other Sands. Well, technically that wasn't hard to believe as she is pretty different than other Sands.

Anyways, she flicked her tail and growled at me, and her tail seemed to be pointing at my hand. I looked down and yelped in surprise to see the dreamtalk glowing in my hand.

Snatching the dreamtalk back, I yelled at her, "Nu-uh! You are not taking it!" I then imagined lifting the jewel away from my head and I jerked out of the dream. Looking out, there was a big storm raging.

"Dang it." I grumbled. "Now I'm gonna get all wet."

Looking around, I spotted a circular wood slab, with a pole sticking from under it. Must have been a table. I lifted the table and hoisted the slab over my head, for some kind of makeshift umbrella. Good thing it wasn't very heavy.

I walked outside. "Urf." The rain was pouring down really hard, and the table/umbrella became heavier, because of the water. I stumbled into the cover of the trees, which somewhat lessened the strain to hold the table/umbrella out.

Another few minutes later…

I got to the entrance of the tunnels, so I tucked my table/umbrella under some ferns. Might need it again later anyways. I then ran back to my house, climbed up to my window and plopped onto the bed, falling asleep immediately.