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Tina had gone to bed upset with herself. She knew that Kit was offering something new and better for her and Eddie, but she couldn’t help looking for the strings attached. Tina hoped that a night of sleep would help return her to a better mood in the morning.

As Tina began to dream she saw images and places she’d never seen before. Every image was breath-taking so rich and vivid in color. She could taste the fresh air on her tongue in one isolated place and she smiled wide. This place was warm and moisture hung in the air heavy with a scent of lilac and vanilla. The air was so fresh she feel the dew from the rushing river near her and it grazed her skin with the softest touch. It was all overwhelming, she could feel her body accept this place as some sort of home. She touched the wood of a hand rail along a bridge and felt little feathers raise and undulate under her hand tickling her. She looked across the bridge and saw a gorgeous light standing there waiting for her to cross. She didn’t know why but she began to walk across this bridge that when she looked down disappeared with each step, but she continued on.

When she was about to reach the end the atmosphere changed and suddenly the day disappeared to night as she stood watching a wall in the back of a building, she felt as though something was about to happen. She took a step further and pressed her hand to the building, it was extremely hot. The wood was breathing heavily like it was crying and she felt an overwhelming need to cry as well. She couldn’t help it, before she could think about it she was sobbing uncontrollably with her hand still pressed against the building as she fell to her knees feeling the pain that this “building” was feeling.

Suddenly Tina was knocked off of her feet by a hole being blasted through the wall. She heard the most bone chilling scream fly past her and as she looked back behind her she saw a woman being pulled by midsection further into the woods. She was reaching out for something, but what ever was pulling her was to strong. Tina ran after her, hoping to help, when she stopped once she saw the woman’s limp body hoisted into the air. Her body was thrust upwards and the ground began to shake knocking Tina to her knees. Before Tina a wicked raven colored tree glowing with impossibly sharp blades pierced the sky and the woman’s flesh as she was in the air. Tina heard the sound of flesh being ripped through, the sound of blade’s serrated teeth scraping against her bones and the noise of a breath fighting to get through her throat filled with blood. Tina saw a green glowing light drip from her body and flow down the body of the tree in a winding swirl all the way down to the roots. Tina looked back up to this now empty body and she saw it drop to the ground at the base of the tree. The tree began to swell in size and she saw how the woman’s body was stood upright with her head still hanging down and her long hair blocking Tina from getting a look at her face. She saw how her now lifeless body was beginning to meld to the tree, strips of skin began to press into the tree until the bones of this woman was bare and her flesh was given to the tree. Her bones dropped down to the ground and Tina looked deeply to her ribcage and saw symbols and markings carved into her sternum. Though one symbol at the bottom looked as though it was scratched into and was tampered with. Suddenly her bones were devoured into the earth and she was gone.