Free Chosen (Book #4 of the Vampire Legends) by Emma Knight Page A

them,” she said.
    “But I don’t. I
promise. I have no clue where to find it. Please, help me out here,” Rachel
begged. “I can’t do this on my own. I can’t!”
    “You have to. You
have no choice. The answer will come to you, I promise. Sleep on it, my dear.”
    “Sleep on it?”
Rachel asked.
    “Yes—if you truly
love him, it will come to you in your dreams. Go on now: go to one of our rooms
upstairs. Sleep. Find the answer for yourself,” she said. “Trust me, it will
come.”
    Rachel followed
directions. She left the room and went upstairs, winding her wat down the hall into
one of the guest bedrooms.
    She crashed on
the lush bed, and in moments fell asleep, hoping that his mom was right. She
fell asleep, hoping and praying that she loved him enough—and that all her
answers would come to her in her dreams.
     
     
    Chapter
11
     
     
    Rachel lay there
in silence staring up at the ceiling, which was beautifully painted with a
landscape of a Roman garden with sculptures and fountains. She replayed her
conversation over and over with Benji’s mother, but couldn’t figure out what she
meant. She knew she didn’t have the answers or the key to finding the Red
Amulet and didn’t feel any closer to finding it having spoken to her. She felt
at a loss.
    Sleep on it she kept saying to herself over and over in her head. Those were his moms words
of advice for her. She didn’t quite understand, but wondered if maybe it would
just come to her in her sleep.
    Rachel felt her
eye lids getting heavier by the minute, and then before she knew it, she was
fast asleep in a strange bed in a strange room in a new castle.
    The walls were a
bright white and there was a bright blue pulsing light that hit each wall.
There was no artwork, no furniture, no bed, no carpet, just stark white walls.
Rachel stood there, alone, spinning in circles humming a childhood lullaby as
she swung her arms around her. Her pink and yellow dress was long and flowed in
the air around her. Suddenly, red balloons floated up out of nowhere with light
blue ribbons which she held in her hand as she stared wondrously at the
balloons, she saw a note attached to one of the ribbons.
    She reached out
for the note and held it in the palm of her hand. A light was shining from the
inside of the note. She opened it and it read; Dear Rachel, remember me? You
looked through me once to determine your fate. You must return to me, I will
give you everything you need. I will be the key to saving Benji. Now, find me.
    Rachel let go of
the red balloons and watches as the floated through the air one by one and then
popped as they reached the ceiling. The popped plastic came falling down and
landed at her feet. Inside each balloon were rosemary leaves whose smell
permeated the stark white room. The scent filled her body and her mind.
    Then the room
became multicolored and started turning in circles with shapes and images on
the walls. Red, Orange, Green, Pink, Violet, Yellow the room kept on changing
colors and it turned around and around. Rachel started turning her body again
over and over and over until she fell down on the ground.
    All of a sudden,
her body shook as she awoke from her dream. Her head still spinning and she had
a huge headache. She couldn’t understand where it was coming from. She’d never
had a headache upon waking before. She knew something must have happened. She
knew what she had to do.
    It came to her in
her dream, the colors, the balloons, the note, the smell of rosemary and the
spinning. It was all making sense to her now. She had to find the kaleidoscope
that Benji had given her last year. It would hold the key to finding the Red
Amulet. She knew it would, she just had to find it.
    Rachel thought
long and hard as to where the kaleidoscope might be. It had been a long time
since she’d seen it or looked through it and couldn’t remember exactly where
she’d left it. As she thought about all the possible places, the most probable
place it