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woman did not answer. Lexi asked, “What are they waiting for?” The woman silently pointed her cloaked arm out into the empty dark desert. Lexi heard several whispering voices that came from the shadows that lay just beyond the torch light that danced around her.
    Lexi was startled by the realistic frightening dream and felt grateful for Marcie’s warm soft body embracing her from behind. Lexi held Marcie’s arms close to her chest and felt comforted enough to fall back to a peaceful sleep. This time she had no desire to push away the feelings that led to more enjoyable dreams.
    The morning light had released the night’s magic spell on the room and from Lexi’s mind. She was already up getting dressed and ready for her trip. Marcie was laying on the bed with Allie in her arms. “Hey, I have to head out now. I’ll call when I get there and see how everything is going here.”
    Allie jumped from Marcie’s embrace and walked over to Lexi. Her soft tail lovingly curled around Lexi’s leg and she bid her farewell. As their goodbyes echoed in her mind, Lexi headed off to take on this adventure that Kate had thrown into her lap. Her thoughts about travel details were pushed aside by renewed concerns for her sister. Waves of questions had begun to batter her mind about what was ahead. It didn’t help that she would be traveling alone. It was times like that when small worries seemed to mushroom into complex problems, building on each other until it was difficult to clearly find any answers, only more questions.
    After she boarded her flight to D.C., she felt mentally exhausted and was overpowered by sleep. She dreamt that she was in her bed alone and the window was inexplicably left open. In the distance a dog was barking as if someone dared to trespass on its territory. The curtains were blowing and she got up to close the window. When she looked outside she saw the owl’s silhouette. This dream owl was much larger than life and there was a reddish glow from its eyes. She heard someone knocking at her front door, softly at first, but the sound became more insistent and then violently loud. It seemed as if someone was pounding on the door with both clenched fists with all of their might. The pounding ceased and Lexi sat on her bed in the dark.
    It took all of her will to move off of the bed and make her way to the open window. As often happens in dreams each one of her movements was excruciatingly slow and difficult. When she finally arrived at the window she slammed it down and returned to her bed. Something scratched at the glass of the window. It clawed repeatedly and the scratching sound grew louder.
    The plane’s tires screamed under the pressure as the flight touched down. The sudden jolt woke Lexi from her nightmare. Her heart pounded from the fear she felt in the dream.
    Lexi looked out and thought about how the airplane had so easily reduced her once epic journey west, to just one effortless afternoon backwards to her old home. She picked up her rental car and drove the still familiar paths through Arlington. She felt comforted by the sight of the large ranch home, with its mature trees that stretched out arms of green. “Welcome home Lexi,” she said out loud.
    Standing at the front door she fished in her bag for her crowded keychain. She still had her old keys and she surprised herself at how easily she identified the right key and opened the locks. It seemed as if she had only been gone for a day.
    A wave of sadness washed over Lexi. The comforting feeling of seeing her familiar old home was washed away by the reminder that Kate was not there and Kurt had left their lives so long before. Once she opened the door a thought flashed through her mind. What if Kate is actually home? Probably not, but I wish. She called out “Hello? Kate, it’s me! Lexi!” Her words seemed to hang in the air in the quiet house. Well, worth a try I guess. Tears pooled up in her eyes and she took a deep breath to shake off the