11.14.07
Who: Kalli and Xander When: Wednesday Night Where: Kalli's dreams What: Kalli's about to lose a bet
Kalli was laughing to herself as she got into bed. Xander was clearly a nutcase. He had told her that, well not outright but alluded to, one of his powers was dreamwalking and soul stealing. Riiight. She knew there were some pretty nasty things creeping about but c'mon! Kalli considered her mind to be strong and if he really wasn't just pulling her leg, well she just wouldn't let him in! Silly boy. On the other hand though, Kalli was all but dying to find out if he was telling the truth. A whole week of intense curiosity about his 'secret' was enough to send her to an asylum. On any other day Kalli was calm and collected, but give her something to be curious about and you've got a four year old tugging on your shirt sleeve every ten minutes because they want something.
Kalli did manage to find some pajamas though. Usually she slept in the nude but she didn't quite know how dream walking and soul stealing worked. If he had to come in her room while she was asleep she sure as hell wasn't about to give him a show. Nope, that's for sure. In her brief period of wandering between attending the two schools she's been to, she had become a lot more reserved. Kalli wouldn't jump into bed with someone the second time they met anymore.
What should she dream about? What was going to happen? WOULD anything happen? Oh boy she would be pissed if he were fucking around. New things always pleased Kalli, even if they were harmful to her in someway. In her mind, nothing was harmful unless she proved it to be.
Finally, she fell asleep twisted in her sheets. She dreamed of nothing at first, but then the pattern of a recurring dream started to emerge. Kalli didn't like where this was going. She had lived through it once, and several more times in her dreams and that was more than enough. She had this dream so many times before, that she was a little more aware of things than in her other dreams. All the same though, why did she have to torture herself like this?
She was sitting on the ground on the edge of a familar forrest that was nestled in the mountain home of her adoptive parents. She could hear crackling and cursing and smell smoke. Oh no, she definitely did not like where this was going and her whole body tensed. When she opened her eyes in her dream, the entire forrest was aflame and there was a younger Kalli trapped in the middle screaming bloody blue murder. Inside the forrest, Kalli knew the younger version of her was frantically trying to move the burning peices of wood away from her so that she could make a path to safety. Only at this point in time, not only did she not know which way was the quickest escape, her powers had no lasting endurance.
Meanwhile, outside the forrest, where Kalli's perspective was, she instinctively grabbed her shins which would soon be burned pretty badly. She tried to breathe deeply and to calm herself down, but she couldn't, she couldn't even move. All she could do was fret and wish for a very large bucket of water. But between her fretting and wishing, she had the unusual sense that this dream was somehow different than all the others.