I saw it in a dream

Chapter 15

I think I am now incapable of crying. I have endured more than any other mortal in their lifetime. So as I'm sitting outside of the palace, the harsh wind biting into my skin and the fear of what is to come in my chest, I think but one thing. I wish with all my heart the prince was here. Footsteps are coming closer and they stop right beside me. I feel the tension of the entire kingdom who are also waiting to hear my fate.
"This traitor has been found guilty for the murder of the prince." The citizens in the crowd who didn't know about this gasp, a good majority of them start to cry.
"She has suffered that of any other murderer in our kingdom. Though we believe she deserves more. So, as a final punishment we have decided she will be banished into the Dark Forest!" Just the name sends shivers through my body. No one has ever set foot in the Dark Forest and lived to tell the tale. The chair I'm in gets lifted up and I am carried all the way to the border line of the kingdom and the forest. I'm forced forwards off the chair and fall onto my stomach. I can hear the crowd that was gathered begin to leave. I am completely vulnerable out here, with no weapons or hands or feet for that matter. All I can do is lie here and hope I die or starvation before anything finds me.
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"This just keeps getting more confusing."
"Trust me, it'll all make sense soon." Jesse says.
The beast was coming at me when a gust of wind came just like the one that knocked me to the ground and the beast changed into Jesse.
"So basically you posses the ability to change into different things?"
"Not so strange compared to seeing glimpses of the future and travelling through dreams."
I smile for the first time in a long time.
"Why were you with them? Why would you join them? Why weren't you hypnotized as well?" I ask.
"I was with them undercover." He answers, "I joined them so they would trust me and I could get information from them. They hypnotized me in a different form, so I just won't change into that form and I'll have free will."
"Wow. Um, okay, I totally understand." This time Jesse laughs.
"I'll fill you in a bit more when you feel better." He says. "For now, rest." So I fall asleep, but this time I don't dream.