Caution: all characters and italisized words are from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. should only be read after reading Dark Toer V: Wizard and Glass.

Wow, cool, my first story! yah! well I hope you think it is good.

Eryn had just got up at 6, her usual time. But this was not a usual day. She could feel it in her bones. She had had a strange dream last night about a guy on a train talking to the train and telling him jokes

(why did the dead baby cross the road?)

and couldn't even remember it. All that she knew was that today was different.

She got ready, just like she would any other day, but felt the need for something. She still had to go to school, though, and didn't feel like it.

After getting all ready and dolled up, she and her cousin, Jay, got in the car and left for the 48-mile drive to school.

Eryn was the type of person who would talk non-stop and you wish she would just shut up. But Jay saw something was wrong right away.

"Hey, E, what's up?" he asked.

"Nothing," responded Eryn, and looked out the window.

Now this startled Jay. "Hello, earth to Eryn, did you forget that today is your birthday?" he asked, nervous as to what was to come.

"Huh?" asked Eryn, trying to feel for her dream.

"I said that it is your birthday!" he yelled as he pulled the car over and slammed on the brakes.

"Oh yeah," Eryn replied dreamily, "I forgot that."

"How could you forget your own birthday!" shrieked Jay. This scared him. He was the one who usually forgot that he ad to put his keys in the ignition to start the car.

"Oh sorry, I was caught in a daze. I just feel a little warm, don't I?" she asked, pushing up her bangs to show her forehead.

"Maybe we should go home…" he said, wanting her to come back to life.

Eryn was suddenly brought back to life and remembered that she shouldn't act weird in front of Jay. "No, not on my birthday!" Eryn cried, trying to sound like her normal self,

"I can't not be there on my birthday! Me and my friends had everything all planed out!"

"Well, I guess we can get going now, but you better be OK by the end of the day, otherwise, I'm telling Auntie about this."

"I'll be fine," she said, "I feel better already. Just a little freaked out by this dream

(because it was stapled to the chicken's back)

I had last night."

"OK, as long as you don't spaz out on me or something," said Jay, more relieved than ever.

"OK!" cried Eryn cheerfully.

As they started out on the road again, Eryn felt a sense of relief from another place, and from other people, and a billy blumbler.