Dream Wolf

27: The Questions

Beside her, Ali felt Maria freeze up.
Sorry guys... And the way she said it too...
"You're probably wondering why the four of you are here," Roy said with a clap of his hands.
The four? There were only three of em, plus Cocoa. Tom, Maria, her, and.... To the right- Ed. The dagger must have taken him here, Ali realized. Just like it would have done to her if Sandy hadn't...
Where was Sandy? Ali repeated the question aloud, hopeful that he wasn't here.
"Sandy is..," Quendel trailed off, "unavailable."
Ali crossed her fingers that 'unavailable' was 'not here'.
So there were eight of them, in the room. Four of them prisoners of the other. Kind of an odd predicament, Ali thought. Especially since two of her captors were her mother and brother.
"Why are we here?" blurted Tom. "Why did you send us those dreams, why did you bring us here, to this room, and well, why us?" He waved his arms around the room.
"You're here because," Quendel hesitated before answering. "Because we need you. I sent you those dreams because we needed you here. We brought you here to talk to you, and it's you because you have some sort of relation to this world."
Silence.
"We're related to this world?" Ali asked. She shook her head. "That kind of sounded wrong. But still, we're 'related' to this world? A world that isn't our own?"
"You are," said Mom, speaking for the first time since she'd arrived. "Maria, your and Cocoa's father was born here. Tom, Ed, your uncle lived here for a while. Sandy's cousin is one of my- one of the queen's guards nowadays. And Ali, this used to be my home."
"You used to live here? You used yo live in an alternate world, and you never even told me."
"Al, you don't under-"
"You don't understand!" Ali exploded. She was sick of secrets, and that was the last straw. So many secrets coming undone...
She burst through the doors, not even stopping to wonder why they'd left it unlocked. Another set of footsteps fell behind her, but Ali only quickened her pace.
She wasn't ready for secrets like that. Not yet.

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