[The night on the very busy day at the Tellari Estate and the Warren -   
Billy and Chai]

Billy clawed his way up the slate slope. The razor sharp edges of the   
dull grey slate sliced into his hands and knees as he tried to scramble   
away from the nightmare that stalked him from the inpenetrable darkness   
below.

Blood flowed freely and unhindered from the gashes and tears, leaving a   
trail of red drops like the large drops of rain which are left on the hot   
parched ground just before the clouds burst on a hot summers afternoon.

Billy paused briefly to catch his breath which came in short ragged   
gasps. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, leaving a a bright crimson   
smear across. He winced in pain once more as the salt sweat was rubbed   
into the wound on his temple.

Billy started as a scaled talon gripped his ankle in a vice like grip,   
the razor glas digging in with a burning agony.

Billy started awake with his face covered in sweat, his bed linen was   
soaking and he felt clammy and hot. He ran to the window and flung it   
open.
<You OK?> asked Chai, the worry she was feeling was clear.
<Yeah it was a horrible dream. It's hot in here, I need some air.> said   
Billy taking in huge lung fulls of crisp night air .
<HOT?> exclaimed Chai <It's the middle of the night in the middle of   
winter, it is positively freezing in here.> she snorted.

<Are you worried about your mother?> asked Chai tentitively.
<Why would it be about my mother, I've only met her the once! She never   
cared for me why should I care what happens to her?>
<Because she's your mum?> prompted Chai.
<It wasn't about my mum anyway. If you must know I was being chased by   
something,> Billy paused trying to think of what the nightmarish creature   
had been. <by something I can't describe, but it was terrible. It felt so   
really, like I was really there in the mountains out of breath bleeding   
and and covered in blood.>

<I'm sure it's nothing, you're upset over Sarilyn being kidnaped and your   
mother turning up and finding out that she's a bitter twisted and very   
lonely woman.> said Chai.
<Thanks! I feel so much better for that.> said Billy.
<Just looking at things in an objective manner, it's bound to upset you.   
If you must know most of us dragons in Alpha and Beta wing are restless   
tonight. I don't think killing those two dragon came easily to them or   
with some feelings of guilt.>
<I guess so.> said Billy totally unconvinced.

Billy took one look at the bed he had got out of. It was still damp and   
clammy with sweat. He got a fresh blanket out of the cupboard and went   
and curled up with Chai, after a while of restless tossing and turning   
fell asleep next to a worried and concerned Chai'lynn.


[Same night - Lunath and Sarilyn.]

Sarilyn could feel the eyes burning into her, the hatred and malice gut   
renching and sickening to see. An arm plunged forward Sarilyn could feel   
a hot ache burning and spreading into a burning torment.

She looked down, the cold grey of a steel knife blood stained with the   
crimson wetness of her blood.

"You let me down for the last time.Why couldn't you have been the son I   
need?" said a voice dripping with hatred and resentment.
"Father." she whimpered as she feel to the ground, a dark, empty,   
sinister blackness devouring her all around her she could hear her   
fathers laughter.

Lunath looked down at her rider, as she whimpered in her sleep. Lunath   
could feel the disturbing emotions and feelings that Sarilyn was   
suffering but there was little she could do.


[Still the same night - Erk, Chai and Lunath]

Chai lay there unable to sleep, her mind wandered through the restless   
warren trying to find someone to talk to.
<Erk, my rider seems to be upset about his mum. He's even having   
nightmares about it.>
<So's mine.> said Erk. <Something about her past but she doesn't want to   
talk about it with me.>
<Both of your riders are having bad dreams?> added Lunath. <Sarilyn is   
having a terrible dream, she had one while at that estate. I worried   
about her. Should she see Nineve?>

There was a silence.
<Well, it's been a stressful time for our riders.> murmered Chai.
<Very.> agreed Lunath.
<Strange isn't it?> said Erk <I suppose our riders have been close   
recently. I wonder if it happening to anyone else, it could be something   
they ate at supper.>
<Or it could be that Alpha and Beta wing are restless because of killing   
those brave dragons at the estate. They all feel guilty about that.>   
offered Lunath.
<Yes> agreed Chai <That's what I told Billy.>
<Why don't we find out if anyone else is having these nightmares and   
whether they are still having them tomorrow?> suggested Erk.
<Neat idea, we can ask Nineve tomorrow if there was anything dodgy at   
supper.> said Chai somewhat relieved that she had talked about it with   
someone else. Perhaps she was just feeling a bit edgy due to Billy's bad   
dreams and she was picking up on his distress.

What ever it was they'd find out soon enough.

[Tag: Well Jeanette and Sam. Anyone else having bad dreams?]

NRPG: Yeah Sam the dream was fine, just what I was looking for.

I hope you didn't mind me writing for Lunath and Sarilyn Jeanette, I just   
borrowed them for a teeny little while!

If anyone else wants to get involved well don't ket me stop you - it's a   
free for all!

James
xxx

We shall not cease from exploration
And in the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
                                 -T.S. Eliot