Aryn sat down heavily, his back scraping asgainst the wall and causing him to wince. He could sleep for another moment...He could handle it. He yawned and closed his eyes, the room swirling around him before he landed in the flaming field again. But it was no longer burning- It had long gone out. "Arisha?" he whispered. "Arisha?" He stood-still dizzy- and made his way in the direction he had seen her last.
He found her sitting on a blackened tree stump, tears streaming down her face. "Arisha, what's wrong?" he asked, running over and kneeling beside her. She looked at him and whispered, "I'm dead, Aryn. It's time to let go." He shook his head fiercely. "No," He replied stubbornly. "Garneil can bring you out into the real world again. You're not the monster." She sighed. "Yes, love, I'm not. It's behind you!" She looked sightly afraid as he spun around, seeing...
His father? Yet it wasn't his father, its form warped and twisted as if it had been unable to pull his father's image from his memories. He made a sword of laurel, pine and birch, swiping at its arm and making it hiss, its arm melting. "You won't get to her," he growled.