Chapter 2- Rising
Lynn Phoenix woke after having a strange dream. She stood on a cliff, with a bird perched on her shoulder. It was a crow. In her hands, she held the body of a man- a dead man. She knew she was the one who killed him.
"This is what you get. This is what you deserve." she said to him, coldly. Then, she tossed his lifeless body over the cliff below and walked away.
Lynn thought for a moment about it. 'Why a crow?' she thought. As soon as the question passed her mind, she immediately realized the danger she was in.
Fire was all around her. She yelled instinctively for Pike, who usually never left her side. Where was he? She looked all around for her brown, thick furred dog.
She found him in a corner of the room next door. Immediately, she knew he was dead. She lifted up his body, finding him almost weightless. Carrying her Labrador-mixed collie, she rose, out of the flames, out of the abandoned house, and into the street.