I looked about in the dark, gasping softly as I saw a dark shapeapproaching me. It sat down on my bed, the additional weight nearlycausing me to lose ...y balance. A small hand grasped my bare arm. "Aprilhoney, are you all right?"I breathed a little sigh of relief as I recognized the sweet, soft voiceof Laurel Jacobson, my roommate in the sorority. "Yeah, I'm fine," Imumbled, not really believing it."Same dream again?"Her question reminded me that I had awakened for the last three nightsfrom. But you're right, I won't be able to do everything by myself. I learned that lesson a long time ago when Sam saved my ass." No," interjected Samantha, "that was a dumb move, I was just so worried about you. If you hadn't stopped Phillip from getting to me, I might have killed you myself. There's no way I could have lived with that. You were right to tell me to stay away." Well, it worked out and I would've been dead if you hadn't shown up." We can work behind the scenes." Offered Tiffany,. About five months later, both the shorts and my watchwere missing when I got back. They just disappeared. I looked for them in themorning light, but never located them. Then urges came to a sudden halt when I went away for my freshman year ofcollege upstate. I never experienced the urges during those four years exceptwhen I was home for semester break or summer vacation. I found a good job right out of college, working for the local televisionstation. Over the years, I worked my way up the. .Ron..." What was with my voice? I could only seem to get a word out at a time."Cease your braying," Oberon said, and gestured. Another elf brought a naked, brown-haired woman through the entrance of the pen, led by a rope around her neck. The woman looked at me, uncertain, as the elf closed the gate behind her.This was bizarre. I turned to the fence and tried to climb over, but my hands slipped and couldn't grip the wood. A magic fence?I turned back, and the woman was there, sniffing at me. I.