"Halloween's coming up." Rhian said to Aradin to get him to talk. He hadn't said a word to her since before her grandmother's vision. "Did you pick out a costume yet?"

Aradin said nothing and just kept staring at the book Madame Margret gave him.

"Aradin, you have to open the book to read it."

Nothing.

"Aradin, are you going to just sit there or are you going to say something? You're creeping me out with your silence!"

Aradin looked at her.

"Well, aren't you going to say something?" Rhian asked, practically begging.

"Horrors." Aradin said silently as he saw a page in the book.

"What?"

"Horrors."

"What horrors? What are you talking about? Make some sense, Aradin!"

"That Yackle..."

"What about her?"

"It all makes sense now..."

"What makes sense, Aradin? What in the world are you talking about? You sound like you're going crazy!"

He showed her the page of the book he was looking at. On the page was a large illustration of a beast, part woman, part jackal, in a very fierce pose.

"Yakal Snarling." Rhian read the title of the illustration. "Yackle could be-" She looked at Liir. "How could-"

"That's not all." Aradin said. "This Yackle also knew my mother...She could have known she would be a witch all along. She is magic, and I believe that magic creatures can sense other magic beings, am I right?"

"You do have a good point..." Rhian replied.

"But your grandmother has told me half of this story." Aradin said as he closed the book. "My dreams have told me much more..."

"You dreamt of Yackle?" Rhian asked shockingly. "WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE?"

"If you mean Yakal Snarling, yes." Aradin answered. "I hadn't realized it until seeing that picture..."

"What happened in the dream, Aradin?"

"I dreamt my mother was running away...Running away from the Emerald City, I believe. I can't really remember where. But, she was running away from something and found a church of some kind. When she went in, there was Yakal Snarling. My mother tried all the magic she knew to fend away from her, and..."

"And what?"

Aradin left his sentence unfinished.

"I see." Rhain said, understanding what he was going to say.

"But I feel there is more to this Oz than you think..."