Ray's eyes clicked open. A dream. It had all been just a dream. But, how real it had seemed. It gave Lex a few chills down his spine as he replayed it. The forbidden forest was large. Even if he wanted to figure out if that had really happened, he was unsure if he would ever have found the spot again. If he had been there before. It all seemed so distant. And what was that that he had said? The Princes and Princesses of a world at peace? There were no Princesses or Princes in a magical world. It was too confusing. Yet... He could feel the tingle of the forests leaves against his skin even at his waking moment.

Breakfast wasn't appealing to him. Lex had only one thing on his mind. Not quidditch, not girls, not homework. These Thestrals. And the magical way that had called him and some unknown others in the dream. The others had come up as mere shadows, but there were at least four shadows surrounding him in it. Perhaps if he were to see one of these people out of his dream? Maybe it would jog his memory? But he didn't know. It was to be the first of the secrets.

Leona walked down to breakfast early this morning, having been woken up from a dream she could hardly remember. She was sure it had something to do with Thestrials, being princes...or something like that. Leona gave a groan and sat down at the table. Going for a glass of pumpkin juice, Leona looked around to see how she recognized.

Scarlett woke fuzzy and confused. Bella was eyeing her strangly from her cushion by the window. Last night the dragons who had been haunting her dreams had changed into thestrals, yet retained the dragon ability to talk. Scarlett shook her head in order to clear it. No luck. She dressed and did her hair and makeup.

"Ray can you please pass the cream," Scarlett's voice was a bit impatient because it was the second time she had asked him. She really wasn't a morning person and his non responsiveness was getting on her nerves. She needed cream for her coffee if the rest of world was going to go on living.

Scarlett spotted Leo a ways down the table and wished she had chosen to sit with her roommate who would have at least passed the cream. Scarlett chose not to because Leo was not really a morning person either and on mornings like this two non monring people could end a friendship.

Lex blinked and the cream, as well as Scarlett, appeared in his mind instead of his continuous thoughts. "Oh sorry..." He said and quickly picked it up and passed it over. Ray wasn't usually one to spill, but he had to admit that a drop or two went astray and landed on the table. "I didn't hear you..." He set down the cream in front of her and was about to lecture her on the things caffeine can to to a wizards body but decided not to because he was already getting looks that said all to much.

Pink hair came into view and he saw the girl sit down later on down the table. He knew for a fact that he had yet to meet her, he didn't even think he had seen her, but he was sure he had at the same time. It was, as he had mentioned to himself a few times already that morning, odd. "Pass the bacon please?" He said to Scarlett. It wasn't that he really wanted any bacon, he wasn't really a pork fan but he had this inkling about the morning and didn't want to shut anything out.

Leona caught a quick glance at Scarlett, and was about to act on it, but wondered if her actions would end up with her hair on fair. Next thing she knew she noticed a Gryffindor boy staring at her, with sort of a bemused glaze that she was used to getting. Leona scoffed and went back to her juice. If Scar needed her, she'd get her. She decided.

Scarlett added cream to her already sugared coffee watching as the white liquid swirled into the dark coffee. It reminded her of her misty dream. She didn't really heard Ray speak, but Scarlett stabbed three strips of bacon with her fork before passing the plate to Ray. She was lost in thought going over the dream in her mind. One of the shadows that had been watching her conversation with the threstrals seemed to be wavering and trying to take shape.

His gaze moved away from the girl with pink hair as Scarlett shoved the bacon at him. He took one piece before setting the plate back down. His head was starting to ache and he kept reverting back to the dream he had been having. But, nothing was really changing. Except... One of the shadows. It was starting to sort of static about and colors were mixed about, but nothing other than that. "Er, what did you do over the summer?" He asked. Not out of curiosity of what she had actually done, but to see what would happen next.

Lex actually started to feel bad at this. He wasn't wanting to know about her, and that was wrong. So he focused away from the dream for a moment and put on a pleasant smile.

Sabrina woke with a start. Her gasp startled Midnight and she meowed in rsponse to Sabrina's strange' behavior.

"Thestrals?" she asked herself out loud. It was all a blur. She quietly got up, seeing as not to wake Olivia, Cara, or any of her other roomies, and quickly dressed. She brushed her hair and made her way to the Great Hall.

When she arrived she saw that barely anyone was at the Slytherin table, so she looked to see some familiar faces awake at the Gryffindor one. She walked over and sat down beside them, not wanting to eat at the moment, bu just to veg out.

"Good morning all." she said with a sleepy smile. "Sleep well?" she asked them, seeing as they looked rather ragged and worn out. But then again, so did she.

the shadow in her dream was messing around with her thoughts... and it made quite an interlude for trouble. Sabrina tried to shake her worried feeling as she let her smile waver to a slight frown. She was letting herself get lost in thought.


OOC: that ok lex?

Cassie had been tossing and turning all night. Awaking with a start she looked around. "Thestrals" she murmered to herself. She was laying on her secret desk in her dorm, surrounded by potions stuff. "Note to self. Never fall aslep near potions thigs again" she said with a small chuckle. Standing up she slipped on a pair of jeans and a tee shirt letting her hair down. With that she walked to the Great Hall.

But her mind could not herlp but to wander on the way. She wasnt working on any type of sleep prank so what. It was a simple color changer and if messed with the worst that could happen was a change in hair color. And all her potion bottles were locked except for the one so why Thestrals. Not caring that there was no one there she placed herself at the Slythy table grabbing some bacon and trying to think to herself about this starnge occurance.

“I stayed with the dragons in Wales,” Scarlett said. She was so locked in her dream of the thestrals that she hadn’t consciously heard the question and her unconscious just supplied the answer automatically. Thestrals, thestral, thestrals was all she could clearly think about. “I am gonna go find the thestrals,” she announced to everyone within hearing distance though she didn’t realize she had spoken out loud. She stood clutching a strip of bacon and left the Great Hall. She knew of meadow in the Forbidden Forest where the threstrals often played.

OOC: scarlett, we're not in the common room.

BIC:

Sabrina heard Scarlett answer her question with a rather odd response. "Scar... what are you talking about?" she heard her mention thestrals and she blinked in confusion.
"Why do you want to do that?" she asked and then saw Scarlett begins to walk off. "Hey Scar! wait for me!' she said and ran to catch up with scarlett.

Scarlett did not acknowledge Sabrina. She would not have turned if her own mother were calling her. The dream had it's hooks in her and Scarlett was helpless as she was reeled in. The shadows from the edge of her dream were flickering quickly and Scarlett was beginning to make out features. Though Scarlett was being drawn by the dream she was not going quickly her steps were slow and listless as if she were sleepwalking.

Sabrina slowed as she caught up with Scarlett. She walked beside her and waved a ahdn in front of her face.

"guys! C'mon!" she called to the other that were still sitting down and walked beside Scarlett. God forbid she would walk into something that she shouldn't.

She suddenly became mesmerized, without knowing it and the shadows engulfed her inside her own mind. She was running in the dream, but in realioty she was walking beside Scarlett. This would be interesting.