I was on that window again. Except, now, no one was in the clearing.
"Jared," I called very softly. My words turned purple in the air. The night was darker than before, and the moon was higher in the sky.
"Alex?" I heard Jared call from below me to the left. I looked down in that direction and could barely see the tips of his Nike's.
"I'm coming down," I called a little bit stronger. I turned and placed my hands on the sill, and let myself drop so I was just holding on with my hands. I hooked my feet into the window under me, and dropped so I landed on that sill. I kept doing that until I landed on the ground. Jared mimicked me and met me there.
"OK, where did everybody go?" he asked.
"I bet they took her body somewhere where they could care for her," I said. He nodded.
"Alright... split up. We can find them, and then just yell. Yell loud enough for the other to hear," I said. Jared nodded. He ran in the direction Zoey had been running from, and I ran in the direction of the bush-guy.... Heath. The echo of my feet was green in the air. The path was dark stone, and it felt like I was running through a maze with the bushes and plants around me and the path, which was really twisty. Eventually I came to a door. I reached to open it.... and just went right through it. Oh yeah. I'm not really here.
I jumped through the door, and set my feet soundly on the tile. I nearly ran into a vampyre walking down the hall. She didn't even look up... the was trying to remain a dignified jog. She was wearing a white nurses uniform.... so I followed her. I glided along rather easily, just following her. I actually went through some vampyres that rushed around the vamp I was following. They crinkled their faces some, like they had just experienced an uncomfortable wind, but didn't notice ME. Eventually, the nurse barged through intricately carved double doors into a room with a bunch of sheets hanging from the ceiling, and beds. Clearly the infirmary.
"JAR-RED!" I yelled. "Found it!!" No one even looked up. Except for one girl. She had black hair and pale skin, and looked at me with wide brown eyes. She had a normal fledgling Mark on her forehead.
"Who are you?" she demanded. No one even looked at her.
"I could ask you the same thing," I snapped.
"No you can't. I've seen you twice... YOU tell ME who YOU are!" she demanded.
"Why the hell should I? And how can you see me anyway?" I growled. I balled my hands into fists...
"Alex? What's going on? Who are you ta- who the hell are you?" Jared's voice came from behind me. I spun to see his head sticking through the door.
"I'm talking to this weird girl who some how can see us," I motioned to the dark haired girl. "And I was just trying to figure out who the hell she was."
"So. You're Alex... now who are YOU?" she demanded, looking at Jared.
"Jared. Jared Williamson.... who are you and why can you see us?" he asked.
"I'm Zoey Redbird," she said.
"Oh my god you're the one who died!" I yelled.
"Yeah. I'm dead. I'm a ghost like thing. But my body is still breathing.... dude, what's up with your tattoos?" she frowned at my forehead.
"We don't really know. Dragon didn't have any ideas," I said, shrugging.
"How do you know Dragon?" she stiffened immediately.
"He's our mentor," I said. "How do you know him?"
"He's my fencing instructor," she said.
"Hmm. Zoey, you're the one with the affinity for 5 of the elements?" I asked.
"Yeah. Wait," she frowned. "5 of them? You mean... ALL of them."
"No. Just five," I said. Then I frowned. "There are 7. Surely Nyx told you that."
"No, she hasn't," Zoey's voice was cold.
"Well she told me after I watched you die. She didn't tell me what they were though," I said.
"She told me too," Jared nodded. Zoey sighed.
"Fine. So when did you guys die?" she looked at us. Jared and I frowned, and then we laughed.
"We're not dead!" I said between cackles. "When we dream we experience something important that's going on in the world. We were Marked only about a day ago. These dreams make us sleep a lot longer than we think we are."
"Wait. You aren't dead?" she asked.
"No. And neither are you," Jared said, pointing to her breathign body.
"I can't figure out how to get back in there! I want to tell them I'm OK!" she whined. My gut was telling me to say something, so I opened my mouth...
"Nyx says you aren't OK," I blurted. "Your soul has been broken, and when that happened it fell away from your body. Heath fixed it but you never reatatched to your body. Your Spirit is broken, and the only was to fix it is to use the power of Dream." My eyes widened. I think I just found one of the elements! The power of DREAM! Hmm.......
"Nyx is using you more than me," Zoey raised her eyebrows. "Someone else to get some of the not-normal-ness." I ignored her.
"Jared I just found one of the other 2 elements," I whispered, spinning to look him in the face. But judging by his expression he knew.
"Dream," he whispered. "And it looks like we have affinities for said element."