Chapter Twenty-Seven: More than a Dream

"May the forces of evil be confused on the way to your house." –George Carlin

Eddie awoke with a gasp from his dream. He rolled over and looked at the clock: 4 a.m. He sighed; he probably wouldn't be able to go back to sleep since his adrenaline was up from the dream. He rolled again and looked at Fabian. He would probably want to know everything, but Eddie decided to let him sleep while Sibuna was actually able to get some rest. He rolled back over again and tried to fall back asleep.

Nina awake from her dream with a small shout and she quickly looked to make sure she hadn't woken KT or Patricia. They were both still sound asleep. She looked at her alarm clock: 4 a.m. She couldn't wait to get up and tell everyone everything that had happened, but she doubted that they wanted to be woken up at 4 a.m. Patricia only wanted to be awake at that time if the world was ending, and even then she still wouldn't be Little Miss Sunshine about being woken up. She rolled over and tried to sleep even though she knew it was highly unlikely. She watched the minutes tick by on her clock. Every second she lay here, the less time she had to find the Knowledgeable One.

Nina opened her eyes and looked at her clock: 7 a.m. She had been lying in bed for a total of 3 hours; she tossed and turned, looked at the clock, but she never fell asleep. She practically hopped out of bed causing a moan from Patricia. "Come on Trix, you've got to get up anyway," Nina said quite happily.

Patricia threw her pillow at Nina who dodged it and it hit KT on the head. "Patricia!" she shouted. "That was unnecessary."

Nina laughed, "That was meant for me, KT. But you need to get up too."

She walked over and shook KT as the girl brought the covers over her head and mumbled something like, "I don't want to get up!"

Soon enough the three girls were up and ready. Nina practically ran down the stairs and the others made no attempt to keep up with her.

Nina completely jumped over the last step and Victor scolded her for making so much noise. She said an insincere, "Sorry Victor" and ran to the table with the hopes that the boys would be up. Thankfully she could save herself a pile of nerves because they were up and all at the table. "Guess what?" she said. "I had a dream last night."

"We were at the library of Alexandria together… looking for information," Eddie said adding the last part when he saw Patricia's face beginning to show signs of jealousy. He grabbed onto her hand to prove to her that it was nothing more and smiled at her. She gave a feeble attempt at smiling back and Eddie and Nina finished their story.

Nina finished with telling them that they had met the Knowledgeable One. "Could you tell who it was?" Fabian asked.

Nina hung her head and nodded a sad no. They all sighed. "I just wish that we could have brought the materials back with us," Eddie complained. "I mean what was the point if we couldn't use them?" Patricia walked over and picked up her backpack and decided to grab Eddie's for him.

"What the?!" she said. "What do you have in here, Weasel?"

"Geez, Yacker. I only have a few things, but nothing heavy," Eddie said while walking over to her to take the book bag from her. "Holy cow," he said. He was barely able to lift the bag up. He looked inside and he couldn't believe it.

He walked over to the table and started pulling out books that he and Nina had pulled off of the bookshelves in Alexandria. "I'm starting to think that this was more than a dream," Nina said. Eddie shook his head and Fabian already had his head buried deep inside of a book.

"I think I can use these to translate," Fabian said, excitement filling his voice.