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wake up yet. I wanted
answers. I sat on the porch swing and let myself just breathe in
the silence and think over the last two days. The street was
incredibly still and dark and reminded me of my dreams.
    Last night my dark stranger
had fled from me when I thought of my previous encounter with
Violet’s boyfriend. The dark robed stranger that had always haunted
my dreams had never spoken out loud to me before this week and now
his whole demeanor had changed. What had shifted in the last few
days that would warrant him to alter our relationship? Nothing. My
life was boring from the outside and has always been. Same day over
and over again just like any other human I had chance encounters,
friendships, utility bills. Nothing unusual until I saw him
standing and starring at me with that beautiful scowl. It had been
brief and we hadn’t exchanged words, but could that be it? He had
told me to stay away from him, but that was prior to our meeting at my job. Had
he knows this was coming? Yes. The answer was clear and obvious,
but understanding the meaning beneath was not. I stood on a
precipitous without answers and entirely driven by emotions, but I
could feel that things were changing. I knew my role to play was a
part of a bigger picture. Hadn’t I always knows that? The lack of
details was frustrating, but the clarity of purpose was not. I
needed answers but I would not live in a state of denial. Was
it he causing these
changes? Which he was I even thinking about anymore? They were both
shrouded in nothing but mystery and then there was Violet. Why did
I fall into Violet’s kiss like that? He called her empathic. Was
that it? What was different that suddenly my life was a pot of
overflowing unexpected encounters? How does she know about
him?
    I snapped myself out of my melancholy
pondering and decided to go to sleep. Perhaps the answers would be
waiting for me there. I laughed to myself. I had always thought I
could be a little unhinged because of my strange dreams and now I
was looking to them for answers. Perhaps this was the beginning of
the end towards the complete mental breakdown I always had imagined
myself hurdling? Well, I was never afraid of a challenge and I
could either check myself in to a psych ward or walk towards the
oncoming storm I felt brewing. Worry was an emotion I did not let
myself mull over. Things happened or they didn’t and educated
choices were usually better than fickle guesses.
    I went inside and decided to make myself a
quick snack of leftover Chinese food. As I waited for the microwave
to finish its business, my thoughts meandered to my parents.
Growing up as an orphan I had experienced all of the emotions that
come with it. Anger, questioning, and denial permeated my existence
for years. I had even had the normal fantasy of them being alive
and off fighting a magical war in a faraway land. Of course I was a
princess and when they won their battles they would come back and
claim me and I would rule the kingdom with them. Every orphan has
these fantasies. Orphans think that their parents are special. That
parents will come back. Of course I could only assume not every
orphan had a stranger show up nightly in his or her dreams. My aunt
Evelyn seemed normal enough and although she wasn’t overly
affectionate she spoke kind things about her sister. Nothing out of
the ordinary though. Nothing to make me think I was insane or
peculiar.
    But he had always been there. From the first
memory I had. After realizing as a child that not everyone dreamt
of the same person every night I figured out quickly that my dreams
were special.
    The microwave ding brought me out of my
fruitless musings. After putting my empty dish in the sink I went
to bed thinking maybe I wasn’t as crazy as I had always thought I
was. Maybe my life really was something a little different than the
rest.

Chapter 5
    I was in a forest. I absolutely loved the
woods. It was the kind of solitude I enjoyed and escaped to as much
as