I opened my eyes into a world of white. Fuzzy, puffy white. Cloud-like white. I moved my hand in a circle, and the mist stuff I was standing - or was I sitting? - in followed it, moving in the air current my hand left behind.
I felt nothing. I couldn't tell my own position. i looked down, and I was wearing my pajamas, laying down. I thought. This world was so strange, maybe I was actually standing.
Suddenly a face appeared above me, and an entire body materialized with it. I wanted to stand up, and suddenly I had changed position. I was now facing the person eye to eye. It was a girl with dark hair and pale skin. She looked so athletic, so capable. She must have been from Central.
"Hello," the girl said. "I'm Ravyn."
I didn't know if I could move my mouth. Did I have a mouth? I couldn't feel it. But I wanted to say hi, and then I heard my voice say, "Hi Ravyn. I'm Dani."
"Yes. I know." How? I wanted to ask, but I didn't let my voice say it. I would rather hear what this dream girl had to say.
"I am from team four," Ravyn said. Team four? But weren't they the exclusive ones? And the ones who -
The ones who disappeared.
"Why - how -" I stammered.
"I'm on your side. I'm not the 'mean girl' you think I am." She made quotes with her fingers at the words "mean girl."
"This is my team." Faces materialized next to hers - a blonde, a redhead, an African American girl. She snapped, and they disappeared into the mist.
"Okay," I said. I didn't see why I needed to see someone else's team in my dream. Hey, I'm a poet and didn't know it!
"We are here to help you. We have tried to stop Olivia. Now she has eliminated us from the equation. We can't do anything ourselves now," Ravyn continued.
"What did she do to you?" I asked. If they were here, how did Olivia eliminate them? They weren't dead, were they?
"She detached our Minds from our bodies. We don't know how to find ourselves again. Now we're like ghosts, just spirits of ourselves flying around." Ravyn seemed so sad now. What would it be like without a body? My mind began to wander.
But then I came back to an important point. "Why should I trust you?" Okay, so maybe I was a little distrustful, even in my dreams.
"Because we're all you have." Ravyn was dead serious. "We're the only chance for you to save the world."
Save the world? Since when was I saving the world?
"We gained too much knowledge about Olivia and her plans, so we were eliminated. Now we will give our knowledge to you. We chose you, because although you don't yet know it, you are the most powerful of all of us. You're the one for whom this mission was meant. You must take this knowledge and hide it somewhere in your Mind, somewhere safe, somewhere you are the only one who can find it. And you must not get caught," Ravyn ordered. But it wasn't an order to me, it was more like advice. I didn't mind following this.
Ravyn turned around, watching her back. "I have to go now," she said urgently. "But remember this. I will try to return tomorrow."
And she disappeared.
And then I was falling, falling, falling out of the misty world, into the blackness below . . .
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