Chapter 13 - Violet Eyes

Violet Eyes

 “You have great power within you, violet eyes. I runs through your blood like the fire that you fear, itching at your fingertips, just waiting to be released. Do not be afraid for those that have passed. They beat the drum of your heart.”

He touched me where my heart should be, and I recoiled back from his cold touch. I managed to choke out the words, “My name is Eli.” My throat was dry and phlegm-y from crying.

“I know,” Nightmare began, pulling his hand back. He took hold of my right wrist and pushed back my sleeve to reveal a tiny dream catcher and two runes etched in black into my skin. I looked at them in shock. It was not there before.

“The sand has marked you, claimed you when you set eyes on the Other world. You were probably so upset, you didn’t feel it. The dream catcher means you are a Dreamer. You are one of us now.”

I just sat, my voice stuck in my throat. Nightmare used his other hand to point to the two runes below the dream catcher.

“The sand also named you. It does not name all of us. Like I said, it has chosen you. Violet Eyes. The feather falling between the two runes means you have a partner in the Dream World… linked usually through fate or prophecy…”

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Plot Idea

Trevor + Winged Horse = awesome plot idea.

Is it not so?

Chapter 12 - Blood to Spill, Souls to Save

Blood to Spill, Souls to Save

"Look at what you've done! You're way too powerful for your own good. You're a freak of nature. You must be destroyed." Trevor's mother spoke monotonously.

The words resounded in my brain, they were familiar. She continued to walk towards us, one step at a time. Slow. I heard her shoes tap on the hardwood floor. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. And I remembered Nightmare in my dreams; his shoes clicking excruciatingly slowly on the whitewashed floor. Click. Click.

I shook my head trying to shake the image of Nightmare out of my mind. "Mrs. Kale, please stop and think about this. We can talk. Don't do this. Someone needs to call 911 before your husband dies of trauma. Please, Mrs. Kale, think!"

Trevor's mother just shook her head once sharply. "No, no Eli. I've done enough thinking on this. I've made my choice. What's one life, one body cleansing itself of its treachery so it can be eternal forever? The soul is a black thing, sin scrawled upon its walls. But none is as black as yours. Yours is as black as the night that knows all. I'm right, you know. They've told me, the ones who whisper in the darkness, the makers of dreams. They've told me what you are. They told me what you've done to my Trevor. You need to die."

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Chapter 10 - Dark Realities

Dark Realities

"I can't. She'd kill me if she found out." Trevor said, his voice breaking.

"She?" Skye asked. "Ok, that's a start. Can you tell me anything else about her?"

"Shit." Trevor swore.

"Do I know her, Trevor?"

There was deafening silence for a moment, Trevor thinking and Skye waiting eagerly. It was getting harder and harder to sit here, just waiting.

"How is Uncle Luke?" Trevor said.

Skye just rolled her eyes. "Come on, Trevor just tell me. Don't change the subject."

It was Trevor's turn to roll his eyes. Then he strained them in a way to suggest that the subject of Skye's dad wasn't off topic. He asked again, "How is Uncle Luke?" I figured it out. It was a clue. Trevor was trying to get her to guess.

It took Skye a moment, but I think she figured it out. "Uncle Luke is fine..." she said suspisiously. "How are Uncle Jake and Aunt Kit?"

Trevor never looked at Skye when he spoke, he looked down at the ground. "Dad is fine. He came home today. But not until... but not until a while after my Mum dragged me home from going to see Eli in the hospital."

Skye looked away and took her hands off Trevor's shoulder. She placed them on the wheel, but she seemed very uncomfortable. She traced the entire circumference of the wheel before she spoke.

"Did... did she do this to you?" Skye asked, her voice shaking.

Trevor said nothing. Skye was crying now, her silent tears glowing on her cheeks in the light from the street lamps.

"How?" she asked despretely. "How could your mother do something like that to you?"

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Chapter 9 - Would you want to know?

Would you want to know?

The truth was, I dreamed of angels. Well, actually, one angel. She told me things, horrible things, perhaps the kind one never wants to hear. But for some reason, I found them reassuring. She said she was a prophet of the lord, but I didn’t believe her. She told me anyways. She told me how I was going to die.

The first night she said the details were sketchy, perhaps it wouldn’t play out exactly as planned. It bothered me that my death would be planned, that life would be planned. She said it wasn’t something I could change. Then she left.

The second night, I asked her what she knew. She told me. She said it would not be painless, peaceful, or merciful. She said I would not die in my sleep, but murdered by accident. Quick, but excruciatingly painful. I would die in the arms of someone I loved. She left me to my thoughts.

The third night, I asked how I would be murdered. She said it involved knives and could tell me no more. She didn’t stay long that night. I battled with nightmares.

The fourth night, I asked why I died. She said it was complicated. But she told me anyways. She said I would die for someone I loved, but it would not be I who saved her. It was not my time. But she said my turn would come soon enough, when only I had the power to save her from the darkness. When I asked her how I could save her when I was dead, she said certain gifts are only bestowed in the afterlife. Until then, I could only soar high and watch from the stars. She left me puzzling.

She didn’t return again.

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Chapter 8 - Fearless

Fearless

Then suddenly, something locked. I could feel it too, like the electricity in the air had gone static, setting every nerve on end.

Trevor tipped me back, his hand behind my head, leaning on his elbow for support as he leaned closer to my face. My eyes were locked on his, I didn’t know what he was doing, I couldn’t think and I didn’t care.

I didn’t close my eyes until he did, and soon his lips brushed mine, carefully, like a taste.

I could feel the emotion in the air change; he was hesitating, thinking now. He had gotten this far, and I wasn’t about to let him turn back. I reached my hand up and gently stroked the back of his neck, resting my hand at the base. I gently gave him a little shove towards me and he gave in, kissing me full tilt. I kissed him back, there was no way I was turning back now either.

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Chapter 7 - Ink & Napkins

Ink & Napkins

...Don’t worry. I won’t let him attack you again.

By now we needed a new napkin to write on. Tracy brought me another.

Oh really?

I felt touched and almost utterly safe now that I knew this strange angel was watching out for me. I had never felt such safety before. I looked up at him as Tracy skated over to pass him the new napkin. He was smiling playfully at me, looking me straight in the eyes passionately from under the brim of his fedora, and just then fear struck through me. The expression plastered on the angel’s face as he twirled the pen like a baton through his fingers brought me straight back to the nightmare. It was the look plastered on Nightmare’s face as he inched closer to me that first time. And now it was on my angel’s.

But the expression broke as Tracy stopped at his table, and he smiled up at her and mumbled a thanks sweetly to her, making her swoon.

He read the message I wrote and rolled his eyes. I finished off what was left of my milkshake as I watched him. Seconds later, Tracy was bringing the napkin back.

Yes really. In fact, you have the whole Gathering looking out for you now after the incident this morning. It’s going to be ok. He’s not going to lay a finger on you again while we can help it.

Oh, but you said he will attack other people too, not just me. Why aren’t you protecting them?

Listen Eli, there is something you have to understand. Nightmare isn’t just some rebel causing havoc. Eli, this is a war. And in war you can’t save everybody.

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Character - Clockwork

Clockwork

Major Side Character

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Clockwork is the goddess of the Dream World, assigned by the Lord on High to watch over and monitor this section of life. She died at a young age and when she became an angel, she was assigned this role. She used to enjoy flying around the Dream World, talking with Dreamers, many of which she eventually teamed up to form the original Gathering. However, she longed for many of the things she missed out on in her “life,” and much like an Ancient Greek goddess, had a number of affairs with several Dreamers. She fell into trouble in her affair with Seth, who ended up leaving her pregnant; something neither of the two thought was possible. Clockwork hid the pregnacy from Seth, but when the sandman predicts that Seth will become Nightmare and be defeated by his son, he finds out, and puts restrictions on Clockwork's powers through a necklace he once gave her she still wears. When Seth started taking control of the Dream World, the Lord on High found out and stripped her of her wings. She still retains what few powers Nightmare can't control, but she enjoys swinging from ropes in her "home" in the skies. She has short, bubble gum pink hair, and wears sunglasses over her eyes. She is about five foot six, and her son is Alec.

Character - Nick

Nick

Major Side Character

Male

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Nick is one of the few members of the original Gathering that actually stays on the good side of things after Seth’s reform, making him a primary side character. Nick goes out to find Alec and restart a new Gathering to combat Nightmare. He was the youngest of the original Gathering, but is now one of the oldest. He loves everything electronic and technical, and likes to wear suits and dress shirts. He stands about five foot five and has spiky black hair and brown eyes. Soon after Eli joins the Gathering, Nick comes across Skye for the first time and falls instantly in love with her. During one of the Gathering’s battles with Nightmare, Nick blindly rushes into Skye’s dream to save her, almost getting himself killed in the process. Nick and Skye hold a steady relationship for most of the novel once meeting each other.

Character - Skye

Skye

Major Side Character

Female

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Skye is an important side character, who eventually joins the Gathering. She is one of Eli's good friends in both the Dream World and reality. She has long, layered, blond hair and green eyes. Luke is her father and Sidney is her younger sister. Kit and Jake are her Aunt and Uncle, and Trevor is her cousin. When troubled with the loss of both her cousin and her sister, she eventually falls for Nick, another member of the Gathering. She is quirky, eccentric, and ready for almost anything. She did fall victim to Nightmare at one point, but Nick saved her. For an early part of the story, she works at a local fifties diner. Her biggest fear is losing those she loves, which plays its toll on her. By the end of the story, she is the only member left of her family and she becomes even closer with Eli than she was before.

Character - Trevor Kale

Trevor

Major Side Character

Male

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Trevor is more or less an important side character, appearing as Eli's boyfriend for the first part of the story. Trevor is a fairly average guy, though unpopular and shy, and extremely timid when it comes to dating Eli. But by following her example, he gains his courage, and eventually does kiss her. He loves Eli more than anything and would go to any length to save her, which is exactly what he does. His shy nature seems to be attributed to the fact that his mother (Kit) abuses him, and his father (Jake) is rarely around. He tries very hard to hide the abuse from everyone, but is eventually found out by Skye one night, and Eli finds out after eavesdropping on this conversation. Eli also mentions Trevor's aversion to blood and injury, though he is a klutz like her. One interesting thing about Trevor is that he knows how he will die but not when, after an angel (Clockwork) tells him what will happen. Oddly however, Trevor does not seem to be afraid of this death, and seems to personify it as freedom. Trevor is short for his age and stands about five foot one, only a little taller than Eli. Eli frequently likes to call him by the pet name Trev. His biggest fear that people will find out that his mother is abusing him, and feels like it shouldn't be anyone else's problem but his own. He has messy blond hair that is almost curly, and green eyes like Luke, Skye, and Sidney. Luke is his uncle and Skye and Sidney are his cousins.