The gorgeous Hawaiian beach materialised around me and I watched the waves crash against the shore.

"Roza?" The voice of my Russian God carried towards me in the light breeze. I turned to see him smiling at me. Running towards him, I threw my arms around him and we kissed passionately. Here, in my dream land, it was never quite as good as real, but at least we were alone without having to be careful about upsetting his family. We were just getting into the swing of things when somebody cleared their throat delicately. We turned with guilty expressions to face Lissa, her pale hair blowing around.

"This isn't your dream, you know," she explained. "I made it." It took me a second to grasp what she meant.

"You can dream-walk now? Lissa that's great!"I turned. "How did you make Dimitri?" He looked hurt.

"I'm in the same dream as you, Roza."

"Oh."

"I've been practicing on Christian for a few weeks and then suddenly, Adrian turned up. You should've seen his face! He was accusing me of taking over his abilities," Lissa laughed. "So, I can have two people in a spirit dream at once." I was thinking about the benefits of this and I presumed Dimitri was too, from the thoughtful expression on his face. "No, Rose. I'd rather you didn't use it for private Dimitri time. Remember, I'm here too. I think his idea of using it as maybe private discussions would be better." I glanced at Dimitri and we both gave her a confused look.

"Lissa, we didn't say anything."

"Yes, you did. Ugh, my hearing's gone all funny. Can you speak louder please?" I wished I had the bond to see what she was going on about. "Well, I'm glad you don't have the bond." Okay, this was getting really freaky now. "What's freaky is how you say something and then say something else completely irrelevant straight after. Can't you keep your thoughts to yourself?" I think it hit Dimitri right then, as his eyes widened and he seemed to understand. I gave him a quizzical look.

"Lissa, I think that you're reading our thoughts," he said.

"Reading your thoughts?"

"Yes. What do the other things that we don't seem to remember saying sound like?"

"They're all blurry and weird. Thank God it's only you two." Oh. Crap.

"Lissa," I began slowly. "I think this is more spirit stuff. You're gonna need to put up some sort of wall, or learn how to control it or something." Now that Lissa was trying to find out how to heal Olena, Queen of the Moroi and fumbling around with new spirit powers, the darkness was going to become awful. If only we had the bond...

"Rose, don't worry about me. I'll be fine." She ended with that and the dream dissolved.

I woke up and turned to where she was lying on the floor with her hands on her temples.

"Lissa," I hissed. "You're supposed to be asleep."

"I couldn't sleep. I wanted to try this out." I sighed. Looking over at the clock, I realised I only had two more hours of sleep until the next guardian would want to sleep. However, now that I'd had some sleep, my body didn't seem to want to go back to bed. I lay there for about an hour and then decided that I would relieve Polina early. She gratefully accepted so I stood in front of Lissa's door, stake in pocket. I didn't want to read a book, I had no music player...Never mind. I would be fine. I was a Guardian. About an hour later, Dimitri swapped with one of Christian's guardians. I smiled at him. He smiled back. I winked at him. He winked back. I waved at him. He waved back. I could tell that he was at home here. It was so easy to see. Maybe by the way he leaned against the wall instead of worrying about the paint work like all the other guardians. The way he didn't seem scared of anything at all around here. It was nice to see him happy. It made me happy. We were on a bit of a weird schedule. Because we'd arrived in the afternoon, we went to bed at human time, but we wanted to wake up vampire time. The entire community was dhampir, and we were never sure what schedule we were on. So, we stuck somewhere in between the two. It was about midday when I heard signs of Lissa waking up from behind me, so I poked my head in. Polina was relaxing on the bed with some romance novel. Lissa grinned at me from her bed and then shooed Polina out the door. She was nice, a good guardian, but quite quiet. I'd have to liven things up for her.

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