I followed the voice and as I did, the scenery around me changed from darkness to an endless white plain with nothing but well, white. I saw a small corgi in the distance and followed the voice to it. When I got to the corgi, the voice disappeared and the corgi turned to leave. I didn't know what to do, so I just followed the pup. As I did, my surroundings turned into a forest.
In a distance, I saw a few guards and hid instinctively, but I saw them put a girl in a shed. When they left, I went to free her, but my hand went through the door. I walked through the door and tried to get her attention, but she couldn't see me. Perplexed, I turned and left to find the dog once more, but the outside was back to the previous white, and the shed was gone, too.
I then saw a woman about my size, but older than I was. She asked me if I wanted to help the girl and I told her that I did. She told me that I couldn't help anyone if I couldn't even help myself. She then told me that my parents were behind me and all I needed to do was look at them. I tried to make every excuse possible, but she saw through all of them and told me it was okay to be scared.
I turned around and faced my parents. I could only barely see their corpses through my tears, but that acceptance hit me so hard that I fell to my feet. As I cried, the woman crouched beside me and comforted me. She was proud of me for coming to terms with my parents being gone. She mumbled something about her own death, but Nathaniel woke me before I could ask her what she said.
He was worried because I was crying in my sleep, but the only thing I could say to him was that they're gone. Our parents are gone and we never even got to say goodbye. That made him cry as well, and we fell asleep in each other's arms, tired from crying. Joan teased us about it the next morning, which sweetened the mood a bit. As we were following the map into town, I told them about the girl in my dream.