The first thing Melissa saw was the white ceiling with a diamond-shaped design on it. She exhaled, still trying to warp her head around reality. The whole dream world and the real world gave her a hard time when she was just waking up. She shifted the weight of her body and she felt bodies shuffling beside her.
She glanced beside her and immediately saw three people standing at her bedside. She was obviously in a hospital and she knew instinctively that it was her people. She needed to give them a name.
"You are awake?" Richard's voice said as he knelt beside her.
She looked at him with a smile. "Yeah," she looked at him and then remembered what the witch had said.
"You had me worried for a second there," he said with a smile and Melissa replied with a wide grin.
She shifted her b
