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Dreams. I was dreaming. It was a strange dream. I’d been transported into a new world with a strange, cold man as my companion. And there were a few pig-looking men and this creepy pale guy, too. Then I’d fallen. Fallen so far. And the cold man flew after me. He had leather wings and. . .and. . .
“Alec!” I shouted as I shot up.
Dizziness struck me and I turned over to toss my chips all over the grass. Wait, grass? Hard dirt?
I raised my head and saw that I lay on the shores of the great lake, but the steep drop was gone. The shoreline sloped off gently into the green-blue waters. The sun, too, had disappeared and stars winked down at me.
I shifted and noticed a familiar black coat covered the ground beneath me. A crackling noise made me turn my head to the right. A fi
