-1Ch.2: The Dream
Taraneh woke up and found herself onstage of the Broward Center of the Performing Arts. No operas have been played there if any have it hasn't been in a long time or they weren't televised. It was pitch black except for the one light that shined down on her. She heard a distant voice and footsteps. Then she felt a presence there and she got a shiver down her spine. The next thing she knew she was falling through a trap door and she landed in a cloaked mans arms. His hands were ice cold she only could see his hands that held her the rest of him was hidden in the compounds of darkness that surrounded her. The stranger didn't put her down but carried her to some creature. It was too dark to see what it was but by the sound of it; it was a horse. All of Taraneh's sense left all except for touch and hearing. It was to dark to see she could smell nothing in the air and her feet seem as if they were tied together and then tied to the horse but she knew they weren't but why couldn't she move.
The further the man took her the darker it got then suddenly a glimpse of a lantern appeared it was dimly lit but she could make out a boat and a lake. The stranger jumped off the horse and pulled Taraneh from it and carried her to the boat and placed her inside it. Once she heard the water around her move she suddenly was able to move and she found strength to speak. She shifted in the boat thinking about trying to run away.
"My dear, I wouldn't try you won't succeed why make it hard just succumbed to me." The cloaked man said.
"Why have you brought me here?" Taraneh asked softly trying not to let her fear be heard.
"Oh, Taraneh" he said in a hushed tone "You will soon understand."
Taraneh now even more scared that this stranger this cloaked man knew her name.
Taraneh letting her fear get the best her as soon as she felt the boat move and saw the man rowing she jumped from the boat but she didn't land in the water or on solid ground. She was in his arms again but this time he held her tightly.
"Did I not say not to try you can't win." he hissed in her ear. Then pushed her down back into the boat.
"Taraneh, are you alright honey speak to Me." she heard her mothers voice. She felt someone shaking her. "Taraneh, wake up!" came her sister's. She shut her eyes then opened them again. Taraneh found herself in her room and she was covered in sweat and was on her floor. "Taraneh, are you ok." Her mother asked again. "Yeah, it was just a bad dream." Taraneh replied looking at her mom who was looking apprehensively at her daughter. "You haven't had a dream like that for 10 years." her mother said. Taraneh nodded to let her mom know she remembered. "What time is it?' Taraneh asked. "6:35"Her mom answered. "Oh, no we're going to be late." Taraneh screamed and rushed and got ready for school.