Nestriel barely heard him as she began to daze off. She clenched at her aching stomach to try to calm it, and her body was shutting down from lack of nutrients. She began sleeping softly and never replied to Rie'Meak.
Her dreams were filled with dark images and unrecognizable shapes. Things creeped in and out of her mind, terrorizing her in her sleep. She saw Kyla, and she saw the drunken men from the bar. She saw creatures of the night that she hoped she would never come across. The nightmares had been getting worse lately. Much more terrible than they used to be..