An Odd Dream:<br/><br/><em>It was early fall.  Rachael has left the windows open again and the breeze has slipped from refreshing to quite nippy.  Elijah looked over at her where she lay sleeping peacefully.  Something was different, wrong somehow, but his mind kept slipping like trying to grab a holographic image.  He looked at the window.  "Wide open," he thought.  "Just like Rachael, she always liked it colder than me."  For some reason he found himself unable to get up to close it.  Unable to form a coherent reason, he turned back towards Maddi...no...Rachael.  He looked back out the window.  "That palm was never there before....was it?"  He shivered slightly.  Realizing that Rachael had pulled all the covers onto her side of the bed, he slid over and got under the covers with Maddi...Rachael, wrapping his arms around her.  She felt cool, and he felt it was his responsibility, somehow, to make her warm again.  Slowly as they both warmed up, Somnus arrived and carried them away into a mosaic of light and sound.</em>