A shiver ran down her spine, and she whirled around to confront whoever was following her.

Blood-red eyes shone out of the forest, causing her to gasp and take a step back. She could recognize those eyes anywhere.

She turned around and ran, and heard the sounds of chase from behind her.

She had just reached the border of the meadow, and was almost to safety, when a freezing hand wrapped around her ankle, pulling her down to the forest floor. She let out a single scream before she was dragged into the darkness of the woods.

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Tragic sat up, gasping and shaking. 'It was that dream again.' She thought, pulling her knees up to her chest as if that would protect her from any remnants of the horrible dream. 'And those eyes. They were terrifying.'

She kept seeing those red eyes in her head. She knew that she had seen them before, and it came to her, when she met Simon and Lewis, those eyes were in the forest, watching the two.

Tragic stood and walked outside for a breath of fresh air. 'Why do I keep having that dream?' She asked herself, still shaking.

The cool night air calmed her frazzled nerves, and she found herself almost forgetting about the dream. Almost.

Then she heard the door open behind her, and a sleepy voice asked, "Hey, what are you doing up at this time of night?"

Tragic turned and saw Darkness standing in the doorway of her house. "Oh, hey Darkness." Tragic murmured, before turning back to look into the forest, searching for the eyes. She knew they were out there... she just knew it.

Darkness stood awkwardly behind her, unsure of what to say.

Tragic suddenly asked, "Does the J in your name mean anything?"

Darkness shrugged. "I don`t know."

Tragic shook her head, a small chuckle escaping. She thought she saw something, and her head whipped around in that direction, all humor having vanished.

The girl didn`t speak for a long time, so Darkness went back inside.

Tragic continued her lone watch until the sun rose, her eyes growing heavier with each passing minute. She sighed and went back to bed, disappointed that she hadn`t seen anything.

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Tragic became very nocturnal over the course of the next week, keeping her solitary vigil every night, getting more and more paranoid as each day passed. She`d started to lose a lot of sleep, now only getting about two hours in before she woke up, just catching a glimpse of the eyes.

She was very thin, and her clothes had become a bit baggy on her. She had dark circles under her eyes, which were still somehow bright and vigilant, despite having next to no sleep.

Tech was extremely concerned about his cousin, but nothing he said seemed to change anything.

Lily talked to her, and that made no difference.

Even Darkness tried getting through to her, but to no avail.

Tragic didn`t talk very much anymore, and when she did, it was more ranting briefly and quietly to herself than talking.

Tech and Lily missed the old Tragic, and though Darkness didn`t know her, he felt the change as well.

Lily and Darkness had been talking, wondering if maybe the other person in their dreams could help. The one they couldn`t identify, who was as mysterious as Tragic`s spontaneous personality change. The two hoped so, and Lily came up with a plan to get them here.

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Lily and Darkness seemed to share dreams, so maybe this mysterious person also shared their dreams. At least, that was what Lily figured.

Lily fell asleep, telling Darkness to wait for a little while before going to sleep.

She landed in the field, same as always, but now the person was closer than usual. "Hey, you." Lily yelled, and the person turned, looking at Lily.

Lily summoned her courage and said, "You need to come to us. I can tell you where we are, but even if I don`t you have to find us and come to us. We need your help."

The person spoke, and their voice was strange. It wasn`t low, like a man`s voice, or high, like a woman`s voice, so it didn`t give Lily any more insight as to what gender this person was. "You need my help? Of course you do. You always have. There is no need to tell me where you are, I already know. I shall be there soon enough, my beautiful Black Lily." Then the person was gone, vanished without a trace, and Darkness entered the dream.

He started reliving the dream, but Lily couldn`t get into it, wondering what they had meant.

Something about that person had seemed off, and after puzzling over it for a bit, Lily realized what it was. It wasn`t the voice. No, it was the eyes.

The person`s eyes were blood-red.