Chapter X, Reading 3

Dakra nodded as she looked at her son. "I had another nightmare," she confessed.

Leudh frowned. "Do you remember it?"

She turned her gaze to the fire, although the focus of her vision was on her dream. "I was someplace gray and devoid of any features. It was a place of nothingness and I was lost in that nothingness and could do nothing. I felt hopelessly alone, forgotten by all, and left to be swallowed by emptiness."

"Was Flindra with you?"

"No. I was alone." She frowned. "I even felt separated from the Spirit. It was as if I was totally cut off from everything." She took a swallow of her tea. "Then I awoke. There was no hope of going back to sleep after that nightmare. I somehow feel that Flindra faces such a hopeless situation. She is alone and can't escape this horrible place of nothingness."

Leudh looked grim for in his heart of hearts he felt that Flindra was indeed facing some terrible and desperate situation. "I know she's in trouble, too," he agreed. "I haven't slept tonight and I just can't shake the feeling she's in peril."

"What can we do, Leudh? I love Flindra with all my heart and soul and it's destroying me to feel her danger like this."

Leudh was quiet for some time. He was thinking hard and he did his best thinking in silence. Dakra let the silence go uninterrupted and quietly patted Icy while sipping her tea.

"I've often thought that Flindra has figured out a way to send thoughts to us though our dreams," he finally remarked. "The dreams I have of her are different than any I've had in my life and they seem so concrete in their message. I can't help but feel the Spirit is helping her to stay in contact us."

"Love is a wonderful and magical thing," Dakra agreed. "In some ways love is limitless. It's one of the greatest gifts the Spirit has bestowed upon us."

"Maybe Flin has opened some pathway through the dream world to us. Maybe that's why we can sense her danger now. If there is a pathway, some connection, then maybe we can communicate to her and speak to her through her dreams. Maybe that's why the Spirit has allowed us to know of her danger. What do you think?"