Emma:
Somewhere in my mind I heard a voice asking me to struggle and close your eyes and do not open my eyes. I was allowed to scream, but I was not allowed to wake up. I recognized the voice that spoke to me, it was Chiara's voice. The voice was far away yet so close, as if she whispered in my ear.
I smiled until a nice heat step from the head and out of my body. Chiara's voice disappeared and a pleasant light made me open my eyes. Above me, I saw two friendly faces smile at me. A female and a male face and I breathed a sigh of relief.

I blinked a few times until I got a clear vision. Elisabeth pulled me into a sitting position. I looked around. The dream was totally different than what I was used to. A flourishing green meadow where flowers and grass danced lightly in a lovely summer breeze and a large tree that stood high above us with beautiful delicate green leaves and pink flowers.
I pinched myself, it did not hurt, it was a dream then. I looked up at Elizabeth and Avalon still smiling at me.
- "Now it's time to wake Emma, but wait a while until we disappeared." Said Avalon and placed a hand on my shoulder. I nodded and them fading away for me.

After sitting on the green grass for a while, I stood up and looked around. Even if it was all a dream, I felt like I was at home on them forgotten heaths with Golden Hills Red Mountain in the east. I closed my eyes, drew in the dream lovely scent of green grass and fell down in a comfortable darkness.

I opened my eyes and tried to see where I was. My head ached and hurt, now I knew I was back to reality.
- "Here," Avalon reached a glass to my mouth and cold water went quickly through the mouth and down the throat. I lay back down and looked at them.
Chiara stood beside the bed and smiled.
- "I heard you!" I said hoarsely, and tried to smile.
- "I know, you answered me" she smiled and for the first time since she and I where best friends, I got to see her cry.
- "See, you can cry." I do not remember much after that, because I fell into a deep and sleepless world.

Chiara:
- "There is no danger to her, the water contained a herb that will keep her asleep for a while and give her a dreamless sleep., She will feel good tomorrow." Avalon got up and began to walk out of the room. I sat down on the chair , he sat on. - "She's gonna make it now Chiara. Come down to the kitchen. Today, I offer evening meal." He smiled. I felt that I had so much choice but to go with him down to the kitchen, where Elisabeth had set up sandwiches, jam, ham and cheese. Even a teapot of hot water that rumor from.

It was then I realized how hungry I was and sat down at the table and took me of evening meal.
- "If you want to Chiara, you can stay here tonight. Though Emma is going to sleep, we need to talk a bit about what happens." Avalon's voice where serious. He had gotten into you a cheese sandwich and drank some of the tea.
- "Yes, I would like to know what happens." I said then and swallow down a big piece of the sandwich. The hot tea warmed good and I could finally enjoy by drinking tea.
- "The Demons are remove from Emma's dreams and them will never bother her, but for safety's sake, she should get a dreamcatcher from Elisabeth and a Bible from me," he began, looking out at his backyard. - "Then is it that Derek have probably been kidnapped by Dark Core. Elisabeth and I have overseen Mr. Kembell and his men most of the time, but now it seems as if someone is blocking us." He continued, looking at me seriously.

- "Emma's life is in danger. Have they got a hold of Derek, Emma will be the next person. All we can do is to have a watchful eye on her and not let her ride off alone or go anywhere alone."
- "Emma is a very lonely person, she would smash us if we constantly keep up with her everywhere." I protested immediately. I stared down at the tea which spun around in the bottom of the cup.
- "It can not be helped, Emma needs daily protection and must not be left alone. Upon her room perhaps she can be peaceful, but as soon as she is out of the room she needs to always have someone with them." I scoffed at him. His facial expressions where serious than I've seen and I stared at him irritably.
- "You know that she will somehow evade from us if we are with her all the time. Nobody feels good to always have people with them all the time!"

Elisabeth cleared her throat a bit and we both tore our eyes away from each other and looked at her.
- "Maybe we can keep an eye on her through my crystal ball, just like we did with Mr. Kembell and his men," she smiled nervously twisted and drank of the tea. She still had a gash in the left cheek after insidenten in Emma's dream. Avalon sighed and looked at me again.
- "All right, but I still want you there with her all the time." I nodded. Emma would always seek advice and tips with me regardless.
The evening came, and outside in the dark blue sky shine millions of stars up and blinked as small lamps of Jorvik.

I drank the last of the tea and went upstairs and into the room across from where Emma slept. I did not know how sleepy I was as soon as I lay down with my head against the pillows, I fell in a pleasant sleep.

In the kitchen:
- "I hope your plan works Elisabeth, for right now, I can not believe we can do anything for her," muttered Avalon and took off his cap. Elisabeth had prepared a tub of hot water. She put down the scabbard on the table. A liquor bottle was standing next to the tub, which among other things was good for killing bacteria and numb pain.
Avalon took off the silver tunic. During tunic revealed a well trained stomach was full of scars from old battles and two large open wounds, which still flowed blood from.

Elisabeth gave him liquor bottle as , he took a big gulp out of and gave it to her. He grabbed the black leather belt while Elisabeth poured down the booze in the wounds. He clenched his fists against the table and gave a sound of pain.
She smiled behind him and washed the the wounds clean with warm water before she began to sew up the wound.
- "I hope I'm right., I can understand her frustration. They both have really found each other as best friends though they are so different. Emma is a loving person but impulsive while Chiara have strong opinions and puts her friends before her . It's amazing that even them most different can create such a strong bond with each other. "Avalon nodded and drank from the booze.

He turned around and sat with his bare chest against her. She sat down on squatting. She kept liquor bottle ready.
Avalon drew a breath, biting into the black leather belt and turned his face the other way. Elisabeth emptied it over the wounds. Avalon screamed deaf through the belt. Elizabeth could not help but laugh.
- "You have lived so many centuries and yet you complain a bit about getting alcohol on the wounds." She laughed and washed the wound clean.
- "Even if you live so long, the pain will never go away!" He gasped and threw the belt away. Elisabeth laughed while she hemmed the wounds together.

When she was finished, she swept out of the tub with the hot water with the blood red color after washing. Avalon was sitting behind her at the table and was tightly wrapped with bandages.
- "Thank you!" He murmured.
- "You'r welcome." She replied, and threw the bloody rag in the garbage and turned to Avalon who stood before her. Elisabeth pushed back against the sink and felt uncomfortable in the situation. - "Avalon, it's the booze talking now." Elisabeth's voice where serious. Avalon raised his hand and stroked her cheek.
- "There have never been the booze, although it numb the pain, I can not get drunk on it." He said calmly. His light blue eyes met her green eyes.

She pushed him away firmly. She stopped when , he grabbed her wrists and pulled her to him and their lips meet. Out of sheer frustration she tore herself away from his face and pure reflex, beat her palm across his cheek, and she stormed out of the house.
Alone stood Avalon left in the kitchen, the only sound that could be heard was the echo of a protracted battle against the cheek. He leaned against the counter and sighed Supplied Overview and hid his face with his hand.
- "Idiot!" He said aloud to himself, reached for his gray cap and went to his room which was downstairs, threw himself on his stomach on the bed and stared into a wall with green wallpaper.
He let sleep embrace him, , he would have to apologize to Elizabeth, , he still suspects that it may have been the booze anyway.

Emma:
I opened my eyes slowly when the sun shone through the window and straight in my face. I sat up and felt numb, as if I had slept for years, I reached over and felt my back cracked.

I got my clothes on, and went down to the lower floor. The house was completely empty, but I recognized it from yesterday. I just remember that Avalon said I was in danger, and after that I lost consciousness until Chiara's voice caused me to wake up again, and to see them them all sit at my side, made me warm at heart.
Down in the kitchen was a man across the table and stared out at the Avalon's backyard. On the table beside him lay a sword visible. On the button, I saw the red cross, which I recognize from history books. Cross comes from the Crusades in King Richard's time. I cleared my throat, and the man, with the upper body wound, sat right up.

The man in front of me was none other than Avalon himself sitting in the kitchen with no hood and did not seem to mind that he wore it, he pressed his hands together and bowed his head.
- "Good morning, Emma," he said. I smiled.
- "You know you do not have the cover on you huh?"
Avalon blinked and looked back down at his body, indeed the thoughts came back to him and , he sat down again, without throwing the gray cover over it.
- "Sit down," he said, and invited me to the table. I sat down slowly on the table.

- "Did you sleep well?" I nodded. - "Good." He muttered and lay down on the table again.
- "Eh .. coffee? Tea?" I asked him.
- "A cup of tea and a forgetting spell thanks." I raised an eyebrow and stood at the stove and prepared tea for us all. I knew that Chiara was left in the house so I did some for her too.
- "Has something happened? You all are not usually like this, dejected?" I wondered, and set up a cup in front of him as , he pulled her and hugged.
- "Do not worry Emma, I'm good." He whispered low.
- "For once, let me help you, as a thank you for helping me!" I said then, and filled the cup with hot tea water.

He sat up quickly when the heat where too much for him and stuck a tea bag in the water.
- "Even if you could so no, this is too complicated and I'll sort that out for yourself." He smiled then. His eyes were red and swollen after a bad night's sleep. I bit my lip and tried to think of other things, but now I was curious.
- "Avalon," I began. I had caught his interest, he looked up at me. - "May I ask you a question?" He nodded. - "But, I could not help noticing your sword, the red cross button, characterizing it not for cross riders? But is it not the same rider who rode with King Richard, many years ago?"
Avalon leaned back in his chair and turned the cup a few laps.
- "Well it's true, I'm a bygone cross riders who chose to dedicate my life to save a society instead of plunder and murder., I joined Aiden patron for many a century ago and has since dedicated my life to save the good and fight evil. "He continued in a calm tone, his eyes fixed on the cup. He took away the tea bag and put it on a plate next to him.

- "How many years have you lived, how is it even possible to live so long?" He laughed at my uncertainty.
- "What many do not know is that there are still some of us Cross Riders who are still alive. King Richard had actually a sorceress with him who brewed a special brew for us to drink. It would give us eternal life. It just me and three to who drank of it. Wherever them are now I do not know, but they chose to continue to murder and plunder. "He told me. His story got me thinking about how it might have looked like back then, but the only thing that came up in my mind was the sound of the sword struck against each other, deadly arrows that hit innocent people and carnage. I shuddered at the thought of Avalon's sword has injured and killed humans. - "But it was a long time ago now, I'm a whole new person with a lot of goodness in me, even though it does not seem to see it through a gray hood., I wear it only to not be recognized." This he said, and drank the tea. I sat still deep in thought on the Crusaders and the mighty sorceress.