The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Another scrap of paper: "Don't be scared. We will teleport."

Raven hesitated, her eyes darting to the ground. If he would try something or bring her to a dangerous place she could still always use her powers. She wasn't helpless if the worst came to the worst.

In fact, she was convinced that she could defeat him easily if necessary.

"I am not scared," Raven answered flatly before she noticed him stepping closer and the next second they were gone.

She felt his body warmth and it was pitch dark but in a really weird way she felt safe and hidden.

The moment was gone in the blink of an eye and Raven felt his warmth gone.

Everything around her was grey. Different shades of grey actually. But somehow comfortingly because the world around her seemed to have a little shimmer in itself.

It was hard to get a grasp on it – literally.

In fact she didn't exist anymore. Or at least that was how she felt. She didn't feel or see her body and she also didn't see the boy who brought her here. She was at a total loss for what to do.

Her mind was there and so was her consciousness but there was something else IN the reach of her empathic consciousness and she could just assume that it was Kyd Wykkyd.

Grey streaks of different shades and an unfamiliar substance whirled around her, surrounded her and drew pictures of abstraction around her.

There was nothing else, just streaks and fog of grey, looking liquid and disembodied at the same time. She felt like being in one place and being everywhere at the same time. It was like she was connected to this place somehow. What was why she wasn't scared even if she probably should be. Everything felt just natural, she and this world were one.

Sometimes there were distant shadows in the fog, unnatural forms, THINGS she couldn't name but they all consisted of the grey substance around her. All earthly things were gone, she couldn't even hear or smell anything. And still the quiet wasn't unpleasant or awkward, it was just part of this place.

A deep peace settled down in her inner core, something she had never felt before. It wasn't just NICE, she felt complete and self-contained, calm and weightless, freed from the earthly and guilty pleasures.

It was like feeling nothing in a good way and at the same time she could never imagine being bored by this place or wanting to leave it.

"What … is this? Where are we?"

The question wasn't spoken out loud. She had thought it and somehow she knew Kyd Wykkyd would understand her.

Raven had seen other dimensions before and she knew quite well how to recognize a dimension and how important it was to adapt yourself to it as fast as possible but this was new even to her.

"It's another dimension. I call it the "realm of moving shades."

His answer wasn't spoken out loud as well, it just came to her. She just … felt his answer. As if she had known this answer her whole life but didn't make it up by herself. Which was why she didn't hear his voice, she just received his words.

"Long name for something so … unique."

"But fitting," he replied.

When she didn't say anything else, he added: "I'm surprised you aren't scared yet. Or more overwhelmed by this world."

Raven withstood the urge become nervous and felt some emotions coming back to her (such as nervousness), destroying her little cocoon of peace.

"I am overwhelmed. I just know how to hide it," she told him without any emotion recognizable.

Obviously she had been wrong. Her emotions were there but she was able to fully put them aside if she just allowed herself to fully melt into this world around her. By making the decision to be emotionless and happy at the same time it was possible for her in here. It veritably was like the deepest of meditations, a stadium she hadn't reach yet while meditating but had been trying to.

Her consciousness felt a shadow coming closer and she let fear get in the way of her inner peace accidentally but the shadow was gone as fast as it came.

This world was so messy, there was no structure and even if she tried to stay calm she couldn't. It slowly made her nervous, drove her crazy.

It was so chaotic, there was nothing to get a grip on.

Nothing existed around her, no orientation, no time seemed to exist in this realm and she wasn't even herself anymore.

She had lost herself, became a part of this world, became one with it.

Raven felt like losing her mind suddenly. What if she would never get out of here again? What if this world would hold her here forever? What if she would never be herself again? Or never have something at hand ever again?

While panicking she noticed the world around her moving. She shades of grey became darker and threatening. The fog whirled faster around her, making her dizzy. Was that even possible? Shadows appeared closer to her, slowly taking form of things that faded away as soon as they reached her.

And before she could scream in confusion, fear and dizziness, she felt his warmth engulfing her and carrying her away in the familiar darkness of his coat.

When Raven opened her eyes she felt her body shaking and her eyes closing again because of the bright world around her.

However she didn't care because she at least felt something.

She was back. It was over.

It took her several minutes to get used to her body and the world around her again. Her feelings were a mess and she was SO in need for meditation.

A paper was hold in front of her.

"I'm sorry. I underestimated the effect of the dimension on someone who is no teleporter and hadn't been there before."

Raven didn't take the paper, she just read it and shook her head, not ready to speak yet.

She turned around and ran. All the way back into the inner city where she started to fly back to Titans Tower when she was sure that he didn't follow her.

This Kyd Wykkyd was definitely creepier than her and she SO needed a break from him.

This was really hard to write and I didn't proofread it so excuse any mistakes. :D

What do you think about the chapter? Do you like it?

Oh and about the "Kapitel" thing: Kapitel means "chapter" in german (who would have guessed? :D) and I just name the chapters the german way because ... I like to underline the fact that I'm German somehow. :D No false sense of national proud, more for myself. I like this subtil mix of German and English. But well, whatever.

Have a good day and thanks for the reviews I got for the last chappi! :)