Bette looked at Tina and laughed pulling her pouch from inside her vest.

            Tina leaned back and place her sewing kit on the ground. She waited for Bette to start her story but Bette opened the purse and pulled out a small blue stone. She placed it on the ground and smiled at Tina.

            Then Tina saw only blackness…..

She opened her eyes slowly. She was on the floor and there was a strange ceiling above her and Tina looked around and sat up because she heard some strange scratching noises. She lifted her head and she was on the floor in some kind of attic with a round window at the far end. She was near a wooden table. A man and a woman were sitting across from her.

            “Do you know what that is?” asked the man.

            “Yes,” said the woman.

            “Excuse me?” said Tina.

            The man and the woman continued to glare at each other not paying any attention to Tina. They were dressed as peasants. Tina looked around at what seemed to be a dusty attic.

            “That’s magic,” said the woman.    

            Tina turned sharply towards the woman.

            Then there was blackness….

            Tina stood on a hill looking out, the world was dark with rolling thunder and lightening and everywhere she saw only red. A man stood on another hill. Tina screamed at him but her voice was swept away on the wind. The man was holding his hands in the air and lighting struck in the far distance.

            Blackness….

            Tina saw gorgeous white towers stretching up to the sky. A man was walking a cart towards her and there was a horse only inches away from her. It was walking…walking right into….Tina screamed!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was right on top of her. Tina didn’t have time to move…and then the horse walked right through her. Then she heard loud shouting and more lighting in the distance.

            Blackness…

            She stood in a grand hall with a woman at the far end standing on a dais. She was talking to a man who was kneeling in front of her. The man stood up. They were both crying.

            “We can’t have this baby,” said the man.

            “I love him,” the woman caressed her stomach.

            “He will be born with magic,” said the woman, “and she has told us that another would be born who will be able to stop him.

            Blackness….

            Tina stood next to a large cave. A large, green, scaly clawed foot stepped out of the cave and Tina dove to the ground. She was standing underneath an enormous dragon. The dragon was breathing. She was on fire. Tina closed her eyes…closed them and screamed….then the fire went right through her.

            Blackness….

            An old woman, a crone stood on a windy beach looking over the ocean. She looked up at the sky, “there will be a girl who will mend the world!” She raised her arms at the sea and closed her eyes.

            Blackness…

            Tina stood in the desert, in front of her was an older Ms. Porter. She was looking at Tina with such love, such tenderness. Tina’s heart was aching…her chest was pounding…

            Blackness…

            Tina was back in the woods. She had collapsed against the stump. She leapt up and toppled Ms. Porter to the ground. She straddled her and shook her.

            “What did you do!!!!!!!!!!!” She screamed and started crying. She stopped shaking her and started sobbing.

            Ms. Porter pulled her arms off of her and looked at Tina, Ms. Porter was struggling to get her breath.

            “I…I gave you the truth…there is magic…you were born to save the world…and…and there is danger…and there is a future that is yet unknown to you…what did you see…”

            Tina looked at her, tears streaming down her face.

To be continued….