All day, Cierra found herself thinking about the trio she had met in the ream realms, and all the new information she had gathered. The idea that she was special, that she alone had multiple powers, made her feel something she hadn't expected: excited. There was danger in the dream realms, and she tried to temper her excitement with reality, and the reality was that despite how powerful she might be, she wasn't strong enough to keep everyone alive when it counted. She had failed Freya's warriors and the skogkatts; if she failed Nora, Lonnie, or Hans, that would have real world consequences. If something happened to them, it would be no one else's fault but her own.
She wondered briefly if they, much like a member of the military, would stand on some strangers porch and have to deliver the news.
