Snow Dream

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Written in Marja’s Book of Shadows

She is a wonderful girl, so full of innocent adventure. I’ve enjoyed teaching her to dance. I cannot be hidden much longer. She now has the sword of Avris the Dragon Dancer.
Ms Margaret
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The white haired teenage girl was deep asleep in the backseat of her parent’s van.  She didn’t know that they had stopped on the side of the road.  The snow outside was coming down so hard, that her father could barely see that he had his headlights and flashers on.
 
They were headed home from grandmas after visiting for Christmas.  It was just the three of them, since her older brother was still at grandmas.  He was now in College and it was the other direction.
 
There was nothing unusual about this seventeen year old girl, except for her pure white long hair and that she was sleeping with her arms around a sword in its scabbard.  The sword had been a gift from an old dragon that he said was called ‘Dragon Dancer.’ She got it when she was only ten years old. She had told her dance teacher that she wanted to learn how to dance with the sword. Ms Margaret had been doing just that and suggested to Lori to carry the sword everywhere, so that she would get used to it’s heavy weight.

The weather forecast had called for only scattered snow flurries, but it seemed like all those scatters had gathered right where they were.  They only had about 50 more miles to get home.
 
She was dreaming of trudging behind others in deep snow.  She was so deep in her dream that she didn’t hear her father get out of the van and go clear the snow away from the lights and the exhaust.  Nor did she awaken when her mother fussed at him for taking extra time to clear the snow away from all the way around the van.

She had had this dream many times before, but this time it came to her clearer than ever before.  She felt those same feelings again in this dream.  A feeling of someone needing help and she was the only one that knew how to find them.
 
In her dream only her mother believed her when she wanted to go off the safe path.  Her mother made her father help her.