The Dream

14-year-old Chase, son of a Baptist missionary who is stationed in Africa, has been receiving weird dreams about a lion. In these dreams, the lion is in pain and calling for help. Chase feels that the lion is calling to him. But when Chase eventually finds the lion one rainy evening, it is dead. And that is when Chase touches its mane and a weird glow envelops him. His next dreams involve strange people, almost alien-like, calling to him. But not for help. They seem to want him, to know him, to need him. So Chase says yes.