The darkness was breathing around her and she shuddered in revulsion as she tried to figure out where she was. She remembered the beach with the marble columns, Apollymi's voice echoing around her and…nothing. The absolute black before her was scaring her, she couldn't see her hand in front of her face and the damp pressure of the darkness was pressing down on her like she was trapped in a cave or something.

She gasped for breath but the air was thick and heavy and it was hard to fill her lungs. She tried to move but she was held in place by whatever had trapped her here and she was starting to panic. She tried to reach Savitar's mind with her own but she couldn't find him anywhere. Usually he was just outside of her mind, watching her, protecting her but now she couldn't feel him.

Her blood rushed through her veins faster as she struggled to move but the weight pressing down on her pushed harder and she stopped. Taking as deep a breath as she could she screamed out, "Savitar!"

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The light that caressed her was warm and soothing and she felt strong arms lowering her down to a soft cushion. She blinked at the light and a face swam into focus over her and she found her brother looking down at her with a concerned expression. "Sav…?" she croaked.

"Shhh, take it easy," he said softly as he stroked her hair. "You're safe now."

"What…?"

"Not now, rest little sister," he said as he brushed his hand over her face and she fell into a deep dreamless sleep.

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Ash practically exploded into the room and rushed immediately to Alicia's side barreling past Savitar as if he didn't exist. When Savitar had called him on his cell phone he almost hadn't answered it and now he was thinking the Fates that he had.

"What happened?" he asked as he cradled her unconscious body to his chest. He reached out with his senses and found her to be alive and in one piece albeit drained of energy. The baby was also fine, weak, but fine.

Savitar stared at his feet and tried to avoid telling Ash what had occurred but the Atlantean's eyes were starting to bleed over to red fire as well as the swirling silver maelstrom that happened when he was angry. "Apollymi," he said weakly. He really had no answer for Ash but what he felt when Alicia had cried out to him, the terror and the pain she felt could only come from the Destroyer.

Acheron's jaw clenched in fury as he stared at Savitar. The unasked question on his face made Savitar cringe but he answered it anyway knowing that if he didn't Ash would fly off the handle and things would go very, very wrong. "I don't know how she did it but she managed to get her into a dream state and she captured her there. Ash…she wants to kill Phae and she almost succeeded. You've got to find someplace safe for her to be."

"And just where is that Sav?" Ash spat.

Savitar didn't answer, he just looked at Ash and thought about the only place he knew that Apollymi couldn't reach. He knew that the Atlantean understood him as soon as Ash's face fell. "I can't…you know that."

Savitar walked over to where Ash knelt with Alicia still cradled in his arms and placed a hand on his friend's shoulder, "Look to wisdom and fate," he said before he stroked his sister's hair and vanished.