Dark Dreams

Chapter Two

      Stepping back out of her way, he motioned for Tamra to walk inside ahead of him, as he still needed to push another set of rocks to close the opening. He watched as she cautiously took a few steps forward, then pausing briefly "again where are we headed" she questioned him not liking the looks of the hidden passageway. "As I said to my home, it's a small cabin hidden by these boulders, and caves that surround the underground cabin" he said as gently as he could, not liking being out in the open any longer than necessary. "Please go on in so I can close up our passageway into the secret place, I will grab the lanterns and turn them on once we are safe inside" he added gently as she finally walked past him and into the passageway.

After several minutes of watching her intently he finally stepped into the passageway behind her, and pressing the two small stones that stuck out from the smooth rock surface, he turned on his heals and lifting up a set of small lanterns. He carefully lit them using a long-nosed camping lighter, and finally he handed one to Tamra who was just learning that she really did not need one to guide herself along the passageway to his cabin door. Yet she never said a word to him as she took the lit lantern from his rough fingers. Tamra had noticed that they were more callused than she had expected and thinking to herself that he must work extremely hard to survive so far from any civilized locations. A few minutes of walking down the long cool corridor to reach what appeared to be a heavy wooden door, with an old world metal hinge look to it, Tamra began to wonder if he had hand crafted it himself or hand someone else create it for him. Granted she was a bit intimidated about asking him, so she chose to keep quiet about it even though clearly, she was admiring it.

With a light sigh more to herself than to anyone, she had stepped to one side of the door to allow him to open it and lead her into his home. Tamra waited near the doorway as her thoughts once more slipped into the past and how her family had left her alone in a harsh cruel world while she was still rather young. Slowly she allowed her body to slip against the wall next to her, with her tender sea blue eyes aimed away from him; she could feel the tears beginning to build. She knew somehow that she needed to get out and run, just run like there was no tomorrow and she needed to do it fast. Without any thoughts about where she was going or why she had to run through the forest with the other animals.

It was that quiet and lonely style of pure instincts that drove her while the emotions ran rampant with in her own hot blood. Yet for some reason Tamra could not control them like she had always wanted, and now at the most critical of times hidden from all eyes save his. She just had to get out away from him, dropping her pack to the floor at her feet, she turned away from him and began to slide slowly back alone the wall in the hopes of finding the rock formation to open his hidden passage way up to the outside world. Just as he closed the door and secured it tightly behind them, Tamra knew she needed to run as free as the wind, and not look back until her emotions were once more in check. "Where do you think you are going Miss?" he gently asked her, not moving in the hopes that she would voluntarily return to the living space of the cabin instead of the entryway.

He just stood there watching her, not moving forward, or retreating deeper into the spacious cabin. Tamra finally stopped abruptly at the entrance to his dark foreboding cabin, her fingers gingerly searched behind her body looking for a hidden the door handle that would open the door and allow her back out into the passageway once more. When she did not find one, her hands slowly shape shifted into panther claws, and she began gouging at the door and along the wall closest to her, in the hopes of creating an open space to free herself. It was at that moment that Cedric slipped up behind her by a few paces and opening the door for her, he watched as she sprinted pass him up to the caves entrance. He followed her with a leisurely pace only to reach past her and pressed a small rock no bigger than a man's thumb and it silently creaked opened to reveal the forest outside once more.