A/N: Hi, everybody!
I decided to make the chapter a bit shorter this time so that you wouldn't have to wait so long, so I hope you don't mind.
I'll try to finish chapter 5 as soon as I can and as always:
I hope you enjoy and please review!

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I was standing on a hill. Light rain drizzled down at me, the tiny drops of H2O making their way onto my neck and further down my back. I shivered.
It wasn't cold. It wasn't hot. Still, the field gave me goose-bumps as I looked through the fog that surrounded me.

Sunrays were struggling their way through the heavy clouds and as I watched one of the few that had succeeded over their comrades' feeble attempts at spreading their light, I noticed how it was shining right at a shape straight ahead.

The figure emerged through the thick, gray cloth that covered us with its dampness, and spread a light as bright as the sun itself. I shielded my eyes against the glowing with my arms and as I dared to peek at the creature through them, a hard wind knocked me off my feet.

The ground was hard against my body, making damage to it that would probably result in bruises later on. Startled, I fumbled my way up on my elbow, scanning the area for the glowing thing.

The sun had disappeared, leaving a dark sky hill, which had been a gorgeous green, now bore a brownish gloom. A foul stench of decay lay in the air as heavy as the mist had just a second ago, before the gust of wind had blown it all away. But instead of filling my lungs with fresh air and liberating the sun from its cloudy prison, it had only brought misery. Making the area look like the land of the dead.

The creature was shining no more. My vision still a bit impaired by the previous glowing, was unable to identify it. All they enabled me to see was how the creature's curvy body suddenly slumped down on the ground. I screamed, but no sound came out. There was nothing but an eerie silence.

The urge within me to help it overpowered me. I scrambled up to my feet, tried to blink away the white dots that danced around in front of me, and ran clumsily towards petite figure that lay on ground.

Wait, petite? Just a second ago it had had a tall and curvy shape. Not petite.

Just as I thought that it couldn't get any weirder, I finally was able to put a name on the crumpled shape by my feet.I stared in bewilderment as I realized who it was.

And then, she rose up on her feet, I was knocked off mine for a second time. My eyes trailed their way up and as they reached her face they were greeted by the two, hostile, pair of jade green…

A thud woke me up.
I lay on the edge of my bed, still fully dressed, surrounded by books.
Apparently, I'd knocked one of them down in my sleep.

I heaved myself up and picked the fallen book from the floor. I looked at the cover.
It had a bowl of fruit on it and above were the title "A painters guide".
The book held no interest for me at the moment but as I saw one of the fruits in the bowl, a green pear, I gasped.

'A dream', I reassured myself. 'It was only a dream.'

The pear still frightened me with its greenness. It wasn't the same shade, but it still reminded me of her. Her beautiful eyes. Which in the dream had looked at me with such resentment.

'I need to see her', I thought. 'I have to see her. I have to see if she's okay.'

I stopped at the door. My hand clenched the handle, ready to open it, but my mind wasn't.
Eddie's warning echoed in my head. He had warned me to stay away from Jill, not wanting her to get hurt by me. Even if he'd warned me, it wasn't as if I'd had a chance to see her for the last three days.

Usually she had to meet up with Lissa every now and then, but as Lissa prepared to go off to college, the meetings had grown more frequent. She had to learn how to behave like a royal so that she wouldn't disgrace the queen…The pressure on Jill must be more than ever.

"Eh, screw it.", I decided and slammed the door shut behind me with a bam.

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