Elly wasn't greeted with the same dream that had been repeating each night. Instead she opened her eyes to find herself underwater again. It was just like the hallucination she had at the Silver Dragon restaurant. The same fear of not being able to breath caused her to panic once again. She grabbed at her throat and kicked her legs wildly in attempts to reach the surface. Her eyes pinches shut hoping that she would wake up from this nightmare. Then she felt hands gently take hers away from her throat. Slowly opening her eyes, she saw the bright aquamarine eyes of the host from the Silver Dragon. What was his name? Yes, it was Raven. He held her hands gently for a moment then opened his mouth. She saw his chest rise then fall. He was breathing? How could he? Looking to her, he nodded like he was telling her to try. With eyes filled with terror, she shook her head and kicked her legs. Despite her struggles she didn't go anywhere. He seemed to be waiting for her to calm down. Not being able to hold her breath any longer she screamed with a couple bubbles escaping her mouth then she took a deep breath instinctively. She was breathing? Looking at him questioningly, he responded by showing his hands holding hers. For the moment, it seemed to make sense. He was helping her breath somehow, but them again, it was a dream. Right? This couldn't be real. Once he saw she was ok, he started pulling her along towards the surface.
The dream changed or jumped forward somehow. She looked around and she was standing next to a small round pool. She was standing in some sort of cave and the only light was coming from the pool. Where did Raven go? Was she in that pool? She couldn't have been, she was completely dry. There was a whistling sound touching her ears. "We're...om.....ng..." she heard the whisper again. Looking around, she saw some stairs leading up and away from the pool. There was a large door. at the top of the stairs. The whispering was coming from there. She seemed to climb the stairs rather fast. She didn't even have to really push the door open. It seemed like it was being sucked open. The wind was no longer blowing out to her, but pulling her in. She stumbled into the door to have it slam shut with a loud echoing bang. Something took her hand again. It felt like Raven's but she really couldn't see very well past the door. He gently led her down the poorly let corridor until she began to see a light at the end. The light helped her see Raven's outline a little better. He didn't look back but kept his face forward to the light. The light seemed so bright that she really couldn't see past it.
Once they stepped into the light, it took a while for her eyes to adjust. They were in a a circular room and Raven seemed to disappear again. Looking around there were luminous markings all over the walls of creatures. Some were flying, some were breathing fire. They were all so bright and glorious that she wanted to watch them more, but the whispering came to ears again. She looked around for the source but the gentle breeze seemed to be flowing around her. Something bright glimmered out of the corner of her eye. She saw a small curtain and Raven stood beside it. He looked at her with bright glowing eyes then gestured for her to investigate the curtain.
Slowly, Elly stepped forward and moved the curtain away. It was another room but far smaller than the other. As soon as she saw the interior, it was like her legs were moving of their own accord into the center. There was something glowing from above. Looking up, she heard the whispering again. "we're ...o.....ing..." Towards the ceiling was a sheet or some sort of drapery bellowing in the breeze. Something seemed to be shifting beneath the fabric as if struggling to break free. Elly wanted to get a closer look. The fabric seemed to stretch downward towards her with something facing her. It had bright eyes of gold.
It opened it mouth and breathed out a thin mist. "We're.....Coming..." As soon as she heard it, a violent tremor shook the room and the ground she stood on.
Elly fell to the ground and looked up to see the creature trapped within the cloth move back towards the ceiling, curl up and rest upside down on the ceiling. What was that thing? The ground quaked again. She looked towards the entrance and saw Raven's outline near the curtain. Pushing herself back to her feet, she ran out of the room, but once she stepped past it's threshold, the floor of the circular room was gone. It was replaced with a great big hole and she just stepped right into it.
Unlike other dreams, she was really falling this time. Elly flailed and screamed only find herself flopping onto her floor in a tangle of covers. Her head was pounding and her stomach was just as upset as it was before. Crawling to the bathroom, she reunited with her porcelain companion and dry heaved for a few minutes. After she leaned over the toilet bowl with nothing coming out, she concluded that she must have had nothing left. It took her a long time to gather the strength to stand. Once she did she looked into the mirror and gasped. More smooth pearly bumps had appeared on her face. Some were on her cheekbones while other were around her eyes and forehead. Upon further inspection, she found more on her neck as well as the rest of her body. Though she applied plenty of lotion to them the day before it seemed like they were only multiplying. She tried to pick one off but she yelped only seeing that it hurt to try to remove them.
The over all appearance was like she was covered in little pearly pebbles. What was going on? She felt more tired than when went to bed and her stomach was still raging though she was sure it was empty. Elly rather mindlessly ran her tongue over her teeth and felt the nasty texture that greeted anyone who just woke up. Sighing, she leaned over her sink and began to brush her teeth. Due to her nausea and irritation, she refused to look up at her oddly textured face. After she finished brushing her teeth, she ran her tongue over them again to make sure did a halfway decent job. Her brows drew close together and she reached up to feel her teeth. They were unusually pointed and sharp feeling.
Taking a hand mirror with her, Elly flopped back into her bed. Slowly rolling onto her back she felt a rushing sensation in her head causing her to groan. She laid there for a few minutes then raised the hand mirror to look at her teeth. Her limbs felt unbelievably heavy, so she quickly gave up and laid there. It was like her body was getting more and more weak as time passed. The thunderous headache wasn't letting up. She was in too much pain to even think about her dream, she just wanted to sleep or have something happen to make the pain go away.