Rynu woke with a yawn, Medusa sliding off his shoulder and onto his lap as she remained asleep. He chuckled as he looked down at her, sliding the snake from his lap onto the grass beside him to let her sleep. She'd been through a lot yesterday, he figured she could use all the sleep she could get. He looked up in surprise when he heard muttering and splashing, looking up to see Keisin over at the river in the distance, his robe remaining by the camp. He remembered what had happened last night and decided to have a talk with him.

"Hey- you alright?" Rynu walked over to Keisin, who jumped in surprise.
"Ah… uh, yeah." Keisin stammered. "I'm just not used to this whole 'dream' thing yet. It's pretty odd." Keisin splashed water onto his face again, which was bright red with red eyes.
"Did you have another?" Rynu looked at Keisin's reaction, which was so different from last night's.
Keisin looked over at his shoulder at him, his blush deepening. "Yeah. It was… uh… about Pheona."
"Oh Gods, stop right there." Rynu cringed in disgust. "She's my cousin- I do NOT need to hear that."
Keisin turned back around, splashing more water on his face to try and calm himself down. "Is she awake yet?"
"No. If I know anything about Pheona, it's that she can sleep through a stampede of Delroch." Rynu snickered.
"Good. I don't want her to see me like this." Keisin muttered, using his shirt to wipe the water off his face. "How do I stop these dreams? I don't like what they do to me."
"You can't stop dreaming, I don't think. I just think it's odd that you started in the first place if you've never dreamed before in your life."
"Me too, but I have no idea what it means." Keisin sighed, standing up and looking back over to the camp. "Don't tell her, but I'm kind of nervous of going to Avalon."
"Why?" Rynu blinked in confusion.
"I've never been anywhere except the mountains in my entire life. I don't know what the rest of the world is even like, but… I know it's important to leave at some point. It just makes me nervous."
"Well, Avalon is a good goal to have. I've missed it ever since I left." Rynu said, then grinned softly. "Though I'm afraid that naga is going to be very unhappy to see me."
Keisin looked back over to the camp when he heard Pheona yelling for them as she looked around. "Great, she's awake." He sighed, running a hand through his blond hair uneasily. "Is my face still red?"
"Not that much." Rynu grinned wryly.
Keisin sighed and walked back to camp, hoping that was good enough.
Rynu looked down at the river and shrugged, figuring this was as good a time as any to wash up.

"Are you alright to keep riding back to Avalon today?" Pheona said, stretching sleepily as Keisin walked over.
"Yeah, I think so." Keisin said uneasily as he glanced to her, then glanced away.
"What, are you still afraid of riding Lir?" Pheona snickered as Lir whickered softly in annoyance. "He's really not that bad."
"I know, I just… don't like how fast he runs." Keisin said, knowing it sounded like a lame excuse.
"Are you alright?" Pheona said, leaning over to see his expression.
"Yeah. I'm just wondering what that dream was about." Keisin sighed, remembering the forest burning, a girl screaming as she ran. "Especially the last part."
"Well, maybe once we get back to Avalon, if you want Alabast to look at your dream he may be able to help."
Keisin looked up in confusion. "Who's Alabast?"
"My naga ally. He can look through your mind and see your dreams. Pretty useful if you have some confusing ones." Pheona said happily.
Keisin didn't want to tell her that that might not be a good idea with the other dream he had had.
"Are we going to get going?" Rynu said as he walked over to them, his long curly hair dripping with water as he held his shirt in his hands. His chest was covered in multiple scars, some layering over each other across his stomach.
"Put your shirt on, Rynu." Pheona rolled her eyes.
"Wait." Keisin stood, walking over and grabbing Rynu's left arm to look at his tattoo.
"What?" Rynu said, trying to pull his arm out of Keisin's grip.
"That's the serpent from my dream." Keisin pointed to the tattoo that wound up Rynu's arm, the black ink back to its former deep shade.
"What?" Rynu looked down at the tattoo in shock. "He's not supposed to be in other people's heads."
"Well that's definitely him, except in my dream his eyes were red, and his body was purple, not black." Keisin said, releasing Rynu's arm.
"That's not good." Rynu muttered, putting his black shirt on to cover up the tattoo.
"No, it's not." Pheona frowned. "We should get going though, I have a bad feeling about something."
Keisin nodded and sighed, walking over to Lir to mount back up onto the unicorn and start traveling.

"This forest is way too silent." Pheona muttered uneasily as they ran through a thick forest, Lir whickering softly in agreement.
"I don't feel anything different." Keisin looked up as he held onto Pheona's waist.
"Well, I-" Pheona was cut off as arms sprung from the tree above her, gripping her shoulders and pulling her up into the leaves as she yelled in surprise.
"PHEONA!" Keisin yelled, suddenly riding Lir by himself. Lir skidded to a stop, sending Keisin tumbling into the horses' neck.
"Bandits!" Rynu said, flying Yin down to the ground. "Where's Pheona?"
"I think they took her." Keisin growled, looking around with glowing eyes.
"Well we have to get her back- I saw them heading deeper into the forest."
Keisin didn't hesitate- he jumped off Lir's back, running further into the forest, leaving Lir and Rynu watching after him in surprise.