My pupils widened.


    Riley was missing from the back seat.


    Where could she have gone?


    A sense of dread washed over me, a foreboding chill.


    Suddenly, it struck me that my nightmare might not just be a dream it could be a warning!


    A vision of impending danger!


    “Caleb! Wake up!”


    I shook Caleb vigorously to wake him up.


    We still had a chance to avert the looming danger.


    My dream’s dire scenes wouldn’t be reality.


    “What’s the matter?” Caleb, barely awake, uttered the question in a daze.


    While I gathered my thoughts to exin, an eerie voice from outside interrupted me.


    “Debra, it’s been a while.Copyright N?v/el/Dra/ma.Org.


    ”


    I froze, my body tensing as I slowly turned to face the window.


    There, just a short distance away, stood Gale.


    She had arrived.


    From outside, Gale said mockingly, “Won’t youe out and say hello?


    How impolite.


    ”


    Her voice, so familiar from our time in the Xeric Pack, sent shivers down my spine, filling me with a deep, cold dread.


    There was no way out.


    It seemed the nightmare I had was on the brink of bing reality.


    Caleb, now fully alert, frowned deeply upon noticing Gale.


    He whispered, “Debra, is that Gale out there?”


    I confirmed with a serious nod.


    “Yes, it is.


    ”