Nightmares Through Wintumber

It was always that same place, that same hut on that same mountain. Every time it would happen, again and again and again. Veedi Limstrood watched as the sword went straight into the woman's chest, causing her to fall to the ground dead.

"I used to love you Gwendoline, but why did you do this?" asked her husband.

He was the man with no name, he had never mentioned it at all, not ever. He had cornered Veedi and had been given the chance to either kill her or his wife who had betrayed him, by letting Veedi go. Veedi used them brief moments to escape, and she ran as fast as she could, leaving all the pain, torture and bloodshed behind. She still pictured the skulls of dead gnomes in her head, she felt sick, but she couldn't stop.

"Go on then! Run! Run you piece of filth! But I swear on my own life that I will find you and I will kill you and your fellow creatures!" the man hollered.

Those words echoed throughout the mountains, and were ringing in Veedi's ears for what seemed like forever; she couldn't get them out of her head. Following the path back in the direction of civilization, she came to a stop as she observed the dried blood of where Ithacer had been killed, the moment playing out over and over again in her mind. Veedi fell to her knees, weeping, she thought she was going to die, and nearly did.

"I will kill you!"

Those four words never stopped, and Veedi kept checking behind her to make sure the husband was not on his way.

Veedi's eyes opened immediately, she was sweating with fear, absolutely terrified. She had had the same nightmare again, the same one she had every night of that same day all those months ago. She got to her feet and looked out of the window of her small home, the stars rested in the night sky, and the world seemed so beautiful, yet why were so many apsects of it so ugly and violent? Was it even the same world? Veedi thought she was going to wake up and find herself still with her captors.

Veedi climbed down the ladder out of her home, the cold Wintumber wind swept through the night air and it was only that which reminded Veedi she was awake and alive.

Paula Hidrigg opened her clothing store for the morning, she sorted out the wizarding robes by colour and neatly arranged them on their stands for anyone passing through to buy. The level of the Grand Tree that the shop was situated on was decorated accordingly for Wintumber, with a small Wintumber tree situated near the shop. She looked up at the morning sky, it was a pale grey due to the clouds, and her view was obscured briefly by a gnomecoptor coming in from possibly anywhere across the three kingdoms. Paula looked down to see the pale face of Veedi staring right up at her from the ground.

"Did it happen again?" Paula called down.

Veedi nodded, and headed towards the trunk of the Grand Tree.