Dreams end, sleepers awaken

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Erdhin and Anenfel watched as she continued to sleep. "It has been weeks now since he brought her to us and she has not awakened." there was concern in his voice, but Anenfel smiles, "She has healed well and the fever has finally broke. She should wake soon." she glances out the window to the figure that watched in silence from afar, "Will he make himself known to her?" Erdhin shrugs, "Perhaps in time. He was lucky to come upon her when he did. She would not have survived had he not brought her here."

They step from the room and move out into the garden, "He knew that, even before the fight that she would require our aid to survive. That was why he left."

They spoke no more of it as Majel came in, "Arlelen has brought word. They have surfaced." Anenfel nods to him and he leaves a moment later, "We will need to journey soon and to dwell once more the places that we abandoned. They will not be the same, but we must as our time of hiding is done, it is time to be known once more to those who are our creation and our kin."

They nod, Erdhin was about to speak when he could hear murmuring from Khaera's room. They rose and were about to enter when she cries out..

"Zyreil! Zyreil where are you?"

there was panic in her voice. How could she have known? Or.. they nod, the dreams. He did not move from his position outside the window, he only watched before turning away so she would not see him. Not yet, but soon.

"Khaera, It's ok. You have been asleep for a long time. I am Erdhin and this is my beloved Anenfel We are.." and before they could finish she spays it.. ".. Dalhria." He nods, smiles. "Yes."

She blinks and looks around, "Where is Zyreil? My mate Zyreil, where is he?" she seemed rather confused and Anenfel moved to site beside her, "He is not your mate Khaera. We can not say where he is."

she blinks, confusion and fear touch her eyes and face, "But he took me from my friends, bound himself to me and healed me in his lair." Erdhin looks to her, "You were brought here after that fight over the village with Jezraith. You have been asleep since and with fever."

"No, that can't be true" she blinks, looking between the two before closing her eyes and taking a breath, she curled up. .. she suddenly felt like an idiot.


He watches from another window behind her, but does not say anything yet. Soon she will know all. Though what the others did not know, yes, he had bound himself to her, he had just been very careful with it.

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They had left her alone and she lay, curled, turned away from the door but facing the large window beside her. Blue eyes locked on the water falling in the distance. Not her mate? How could that be? She could feel something, but she was unable to pin it down, unable to determine exactly what she felt. It was as though the sight of it was blocked from her mind.

Anenfel returns with a tray of food. She sets it on the table between her and the window. "Come child, eat". She moves over to help Khaera up. She would be weak, but she needed to eat something.

Khaera slowly opens her eyes and sits up. She pauses as the world spins and she uses her hands on the bed beside her to keep from falling back over or passing out, "Whoa.. " Anenfel chuckles, "Yes, you are weak Child. You need to eat to regain your strength."

Khaera stood with her help and takes a breath. She was much shorter than Anenfel was by about a hand. The woman she noted was beautiful, extraordinarily so. When they reach the chair she sits and begins to eat. "Eat slowly child. There is more when you are ready to eat it." she nods softly, "Thank you" her voice was hoarse, she drank some water - drinking slowly at Anenfel's encouragement.

She ate in relative silence. It took her longer than normal. Eating only until she wasn't hungry anymore before sitting back and looking to Anenfel.

"You have questions child" it was a statement not a question. They were clear and plain on her face, she nods, "Yes I do Anenfel." she pauses and, "How did I get here? Do my kin know where I am?" Anenfel smiles, "You were brought to the southern most city of your land. There is a port there, one of ours. From there we brought you here by the sea. As far as I know, yes, Your Dam and Sire know of your whereabouts, or atleast that you were needing to heal."

she takes in the information, tilts her head, "I didn't think I was hurt that badly. Why was I brought here?" she was curious, she vaguely remembered the fight, though something seemed missing in her recollection of it.

Anenfel recounts what he told her of the fight and she asks Khaera, "What do you remember of the fight?"

Khaera tries to remember, tilting her head softly, "Well Nraith and I were in the village with Rikki and Ash. Jezraith came with one of my kin. I sent my kin home for he was younger than I, but Jezraith would not go. I rose into the air, shifting to fight him myself so that none of the humans would get hurt." she pauses to think. She knew better than to add to the truth of what she remembered, she continues, though hesitantly, "I remember fighting with him, it was getting ugly, then.. " she pauses again, "I woke up here".

She takes a breath and shifts her gaze to look outside. She was feeling better, but was still tired. Anenfel nods, "What you don't remember is that another came into the fight, fighting both of you, though mostly you. I believe when Jezraith realized that the dragon was going to try to kill you he turned against him. He fought when you were unable and had fallen to the ground. Your wounds were much worse than you knew, plus you had a fever. Had you not been brought to us, you would not have survived."

she takes a breath, nodding softly. "I think I'd like to rest more" Anenfel nods, and helps her back to the bed. Khaera curls up again and closes her eyes as though to sleep.

Instead she opens up the link

::Mother, Father - I am..awake now::

she thinks about reaching out to Jezraith, but she does not, atleast not yet.

She feels the relief of her Sire and Dam, she briefly touches Nraith's mind to let him know as well, then sleep takes her. As sleep takes her she wonders of this one Zyreil, why she knows him, yet..

He watches still from behind as she falls into a deep sleep. He allows the moments to pass and watches as Anenfel leaves. Did she suspect? It didn't matter. For now he steps into the room and moves to her side. He watches her as she sleeps as Erdhin enters ::You care for the youngling?:: He nods, replying using the bond they share, ::Yes, though for reasons I am unsure of. I have only met her in dreams.:: Erdhin smiles, so that was him who manipulated her dreams, ::All will be clear Zyreil, be patient. But do not hide from her long as she desires you also.:: He turns and leaves as Zyreil touches her cheek, whispering softly, "Soon.. " then rising he presses a kiss to her forehead before slipping out the way he came in. He leaves the village and shifts, rising into the air to hunt.

As he rises into the air she stirs from the lingering kiss to her forehead, sitting up as she looks around. She was sure someone had been here with her, sure "he" had been here with her. But there was no sign but the lingering touch to her cheek and kiss. She lays down again to sleep and rest. She needed to get home soon.