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  There was not a single time since five years ago that she dreamt the same thing.....

  In her dream...she ran through the woods to find her young brother...on her way, she slipped and tumbled down a hill. Sharp rocks scraped her body, and long branches whacked her like a whip as she fell.

  She didn't realize it but below was a cliff going thousands of feet down. She felt like she had to grab on to something...her grip was eventually on a bush. Part of her body began to slide down the cliff, but she pulled with all her might to get herself up.

  Then suddenly, she was stopped by something she felt watching her...she slowly looked up to see the familiar obsidian eyes locked on her.

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  Her heart began to pound and he body began to tremble.

  What was HE doing here?

  She continued to look at him with desperation. "What do you want from me? I'd done nothing to you!"

  All of a sudden, the beast tilted back his head and howled, before snapping his jaws firmly on her arm.

  Suddenly, she fell .........

  When she woke from the dream, she gasped in fright. She then realized that something had her on chokehold. She grasped on to the cold hands that had her throat.

  She strained to breathe ...but she had to figure out who was doing this to her!

  When she looked up, she noticed that.....it was her brother?

  But something about him wasn't normal, and she trembled with fear. His eyes were full black...nothing was there. But he smiled wickedly as he continued to press on her throat.

  She found herself saying, "Gabriel...this isn't you!"

  Then she looked around her and noticed that hundreds of thousands of crows swooped down to consume her flesh. Their master continued his grip.