Displeased with the chapter, and I apologize.

Cole shot up, much like he did last time, gasping for breath.

He waited a while, to collect himself, before he looked up.

"How was it?" Uriel asked.

"Memory, yet dream. Dark, dank, filled with fear and pain. An escape, but we needed to get the others. He tries to reach, but can't. She'll be coming back soon. I tell him to try again. He gets them, and we flee, the shadow chasing after us. Then, a grassy field, he's content. I leave." Cole answered.

Uriel had a flicker of realization in their eyes, but stayed silent for a while, before speaking.

"The last dream. Was it in a house?"

"Yes, but how? Do you know him?"

Cole was standing by this time, taller than Uriel by an inch or so.

"Yes. I'm not sure how you're able to contact him, but Dakota has always been rather gifted, so I suppose it makes sense. Perhaps he'll be joining us soon. I can only hope." Uriel explained.

Joining us?

As in here?

Physically here?

Warmth made Cole tingle.

Happy.

He was happy.

He wasn't sure why, but he the thought of Dakota being here, with him, made him feel so happy.

"Heh, you like him, don't you, Cole?" Uriel teased.

"What?"

Uriel's eyes glimmered with mischief.

"So, what exactly do you guys do in the fade, hmm? Cause I feel like you're not telling us everything, lover boy."

Could Cole blush?

Because he felt like he could, and was.

"I make it better! He's scared and hurt and I make it better!" He defended.

Uriel grinned like the Cheshire cat.

"Oh? How so, hmm? And does he make you feel better? I'd say so. You were smiling while you were in the fade." They purred.

Poor Cole was like a little mouse in the paws of a sadistic cat at the moment.

Uriel giggled at the blonde's flustered attempts to explain things, but then sobered up a bit.

"I'm just teasing you, Cole. I'm glad that you're helping him, and that you like him. You need it just as much as he does. Take care. I'll harass you later."

And with that, they left him there, still burning with embarrassment, and still a bit confused.