King shrugged and looked back at Harlen. "Please tell me you have a plan. Because my baby girl really likes to color with me.

Red light flickered behind her closed eyelids, and when she opened them, she discovered that they were surrounded by flames. Let it burn.... His sleek brow wrinkled, and he shook his head. Poor man looked conflicted, which was an interesting expression on a nightmare. "Your city is on fire." She smiled languidly. "Ain't it grand?

He's a nightmare," she said. "I can be, too." Rook answered, his red eyes glowing. "Just try me.

Even dead he won't let me go!" "Third time's the charm.

His dad's eyes were getting darker. "How bad is it really?" Very bad. Too many fronts to fight. Bur for starters... "That big storm out east?" Jordan and Rook had gone to investigate... "That's the Sandman in the waking world." His dad frowned deeply. He shook his head and shrugged. "I don't know what that means." Yeah, well... "Neither do we.

Is she okay?" Harlen's throat was clogged with stones of fear. "She has to be okay.

If anyone comes, shoot first, ask questions later.

I want to wake up!" a young woman shouted to the classroom ceiling. With her wide-set eyes and freckles, she looked like a nice person. Then a knobby-boned creature advanced on her. But she couldn't wake. And she likely wouldn't ever again.