Second Encounter

Chapter 2 : Dreams

"Ambrose." a young voice stretched out playfully. "Ambrose."

He turned and barely glimpsed the tail of a dress whipping around the corner.

"Ambrose!" came the voice again. "Won't you play with me?"

He walked toward it and just as he was about to look around the wall, everything changed.

Now he was outside in the freezing cold, new snow coming down in torrents with an icy wind helping. He was shaking, wishing for warmth, then, there it was. In his arms was something warm and heavy cuddled against him. He looked down to find the source and everything spun.

Colorful costumes and gentle music spun in a lazy circle and ----

"Glitch. Come on let's go."

He sat up and rubbed his eyes. What a weird dream, it was like he was there or something.

"You ready to go?" DG asked him, standing away a little bit looking like she had been ready to go for quite a while.

Glitch pulled himself to his feet and yawned widely. Had he already given her his name yesterday? He really couldn't remember, but didn't she just call him Glitch? Yes, she did. Guess that answers that question.

"A storm is coming." a lady with lavender eyes repeated over and over. "A storm is coming."

She was walking in darkness listening to a rhyme being sung. Little dolls spun in place hovering in the air. A bear growled, then she was sipping hot chocolate comfortably on a bed, watching a candle flicker against the wall. The candle died and she was sitting on a swing, rocking back and forth gently……

DG jerked awake and her adventures from the previous day came rushing back like water in a dam. She had been thrown into a tornado by her parents, captured in a net by little savages, and was now taking directions from a man with a zipper in his head.

Yep, that just about sums it up.

She glances over at her guide. He was still asleep, laying on his back by a fairly large log.

Now what did he say his name was? The man in the ripped up overcoat twitches, apparently dreaming about something. Glitch, that was it, because an Azk-someone had took his brain for some reason.

DG thought about her dream. Was it just a dream or was it something more? She had the same one when one was at home. The lady, the singing, the spinning dolls. Ok, she had to admit, the Hot Chocolate part was new.

The sun shone through the trees and hit her in her still sleepy blue eyes. How much time had passed? They have to get moving if she was going to catch up to her parents.

"Glitch." she called to his sleeping figure, "Come on let's go."

To her surprise, he immediately sat up and started rubbing his eyes. Dang, if she could wake up that easily, she would never had been late to school for so many years.

"You ready to go?" DG asked and he stood up and yawned. Taking that as a yes, she starting strolling away, stifling a yawn as best as she could.