[In a Dream.]
[The dreams shift a moment. It's barely perceptible, but the lingering of death is there, grave yard soil shifted and disturbed. It was a thin veil that separated Waking and Nightmares.
Fable was Walking. Searching. She was looking for a man. She had been looking each and every Walk. She never glimpsed dark hair or a scar. No. No matter how far, how deep she slipped.
And then she stopped. It was a Between Place it came on quickly, but so vivid, lusher than anything she'd seen before. Fable stood in the center of it all. Surrounded by colors only witnessed in dreams. They shined iridescent in a dome above her, shifting, writhing as though alive, living electric pulses. Her white skirt flew up and around her legs, and hair was a wild aura, though there was no wind. Living color melted down quicker than wax, gushing as easily as water from a spigot, it pooled at her bare feet, higher and higher until she's waist deep. She tried to move forward, but the Dream doesn't allow her to. Up. The colors spread. To her breasts now. Up. To her shoulders now. The white of her dress is swallowed and the pool of colors are meld into thick, oily black. Up. To her neck. She closed her eyes and now its at her chin, sticky tar. No. More like ink. In texture. In smell. Ink. She gets out one gasp before it swallows her whole, like a monster, like the Whale, like the Darkness. There is no more color. Only endless black.
Fable gasped again and she was longer Walking, but standing still. There was a breeze on her skin and when she inhaled air filled her lungs. She got out in time, spat out more like it, but it was not enough to go back home. It was too soon as panic had overtaken the familiar. She couldn't quite make it to the cabin. To the woods. The veil had slipped into terror so fast. Now here she was in reality. In the night. In the middle of a quiet road. Without him. Her toes wiggled on cold asphalt. Lights flickered in the distance. She squinted. Fable's feet moved between the shadows cast by street lamps and towards a town.]