Chapter 17 Aria

• I pressed my eyes shut once more, urging sleep to wash over me once again. Perhaps if I could fall asleep then the dream would return... continue where it had left off, and maybe I could discover who the mystery man had been. The man who had shifted in front of me. Would he reveal himself to me again? I desperately wanted to know who this man was and if I knew him. He felt familiar. I needed to see him. Then I would know. I squeezed my eyes together even tighter, willing the sleep to come. But the harder I tried, the more wide awake I seemed to feel, and the more frustrated I became. It seemed I would not get my answer...
• I opened my eyes with a deep sigh, looking up at the ceiling, my mind running over the dream. Trying to relive every aspect. But, I came back to the same thoughts. It was too familiar. Something seemed recognizable about where I was. About the wolf. Like I had been around them before... Those blue eyes... yet my mind did not seem to want to work properly right now, and I clung desperately on the edge, unable to grasp the answers I needed.
• Sleep was evidently not going to find me, just as I was not going to find the answers I craved. I leaned over to flick on the lamp, and I edged myself up on the bed, the aching within my body gradually beginning to ease. And, my eyes adjusted to the lights, as they moved around the room. Empty once again.