"Finish your nightmare, Hermione. Please prove me right or wrong." He raised his wand and said his spell silently.
She started at him in shock only a moment before she slumped over, fast asleep.
Concentrating as hard has he could, Severus entered his wife's mind again. This time he was thrust into the clearing in her nightmare.
He saw her crouching behind the cluster of trees watching in horror. He turned slowly. It was the same as before.
The Death Eater brought the knife down deliberately. Once it stabbed the prisoner the Death Eater's mask vanished.
Severus was proven right when he was faced with himself.