"aren't you hungry?"
"no", sienna said as she picked at her breakfast with a fork.
"i looked through your food cabinet when i woke up this morning."
"...when did you wake up?", robert asked out of curiosity.
"hmm...
something like 3:30 A.M.?"
"okay", he sighed
"guess there's more for me then."
"no no, i'll eat it! i've got to have a normal breakfast, after all."
he gave her an amused chuckle.
"fine, but hurry up a bit, or else we're going to be late."
"...to where?", she asked while chewing.
a short pause echoed through the kitchen.
"you'll see."
robert langdon walked along a leaf-covered path.
"why are we in the woods?", a gentle voice asked.
robert looked up from the ground. apparently the rhythmic crunch of the leaves had set him into a trance.
"well", he started, "because the nightmare is set in a forest, i thought we could prevent more of them from happening by going here."
sienna thought about his idea for a moment.
"...i don't see the logic in that."
"i don't know anything about the supernatural", he sighed. "so i guess this is the only thing we can do."
"supernatural? am i a ghost?"
"i have no idea of what you are.
you appear in the real world, but you can also appear in dreams.
you're able to touch objects and people. i truly don't know what you are."
sienna was silent for a few seconds.
"where exactly are we supposed to go in the forest?", she suddenly asked.
"i assume we're supposed to go to the same path we ran on."
"let's find it then."
the two...power-walked...through the woods, the sky darkening.
sienna looked at the man walking in front of her.
he had gotten paler and paler along the way, his ultramarine blue eyes were currently the most striking feature about him. his heavy breathing was now one of the many noises audible in their surroundings.
sienna cried out, "there, there it is!"
she pointed towards a dark, tight, way, a few metres away from them.
his voice had lost its strength, "yes, th-that's the..."
robert pitched forward bonelessly and hit the ground like a ton of bricks- he had passed out.
"robert?!"
sienna fell onto her knees beside him, turning him onto his back and shaking him.
no reaction.
she mumbled a swear and closed her eyes, pressing her forehead against his.
i pray that this works.
a girl, possibly about nine years old, was running through a snow-drowned place, pale, thin, trees sticking out of the ground. the sky was drowned in a grieving blue.
she had been searching for something for almost ten minutes.
or was she searching for someone?
"ROBERT!", she screamed once again.
her pace slowed down, and sienna let herself crash onto the snow.
tears were rolling down her vermilion cheeks.
a pained cry echoed across the whole landscape.
now she was just sobbing on the ground and letting her limbs freeze.
sienna buried her face in her hands and whimpered.
"shhh, i'm here, everything's okay..", a kind voice whispered.
the girl turned her head towards the person.
an attractive young man with ultramarine blue eyes and wild, dark brown hair, had crouched down beside her.
it was robert, as always.
"you would've died of hypothermia like this..."
the only things she was dressed in was a white shirt loosely tucked into a pleated skirt and black stockings.
"as..as if it's p-possible to die in a dream...", her voice sounded powerless.
he wrapped his jacket around her and scooped her up into his arms.
"you're warm...", sienna whispered as she gripped onto robert's blue sweater.
he let out a light chuckle.
as robert entered the dark path, the temperature had risen noticeably.
the picture turned black.