Free Dragon Frost by S. J. Wist Page A

who wondered what would happen if two Dreamwalkers dreamt the same thing. Reality doesn't seem so wonderful in comparison to how real of a place mere thoughts can create." Sybl looked across the chasm of the Casus Beli field. It looked to stretch as far as she was able to remember it could.
    Nafury had come to believe that dreams should always be just out of reach. For if you catch them and they shatter in your hands, then you will have lost everything. For there will be nothing left to pull yourself out of the nightmares with. Now, his one chance to stop it all from happening again stood right before him. She hadn't aged a day, where he was now twenty-six. "It's good to see you."
    "You are turning into an old man," Sybl mocked, looking him over. "And you," Sybl said and looked at Ubi, "look so much like Kas I could cry." She smiled and closed her eyes for a moment. "I know it's hard, but I want you to forgive him for what he did."
    Ubi's face changed instantly to a hateful expression on the suggestion. "I can't do that. He banished me to one short lifetime after the other filled with suffering and death!"
    "I know that now," Sybl said, and brushed some of Ubi's dark hair back from her shoulder.
    "He took me from you! Now you're dead and...and..!"
    "Hey," Sybl said and pulled Ubi to her and into a hug. "You have to let the hate go, or our enemies will use it against you. Kas was a Fay of darkness, just like you. But unlike you he didn't have the emotional capacity to always see where he hurt others. What he did at the time he thought was right. He realized it was wrong much later, and for him, it was too late to fix his mistakes."
    "I don't care. I will never forgive him," Ubi cried.
    Sybl hugged her tighter and looked up at Nafury.
    "What would you have me do now?" he asked.
    "You must protect Ubi. Earth is assembling a large assault with its focus on Aster. They know Asterians exist now, and their fear of us has continued to grow."
    "So who are we to expect?" Nafury asked.
    "The Sentry, and as the dragons are a variation of Sentry, they will use them too. Just as they used Simera despite his incredible spiritual and physical strength. Closing the Gates and Rifts won't be enough to stop them," Sybl explained. "They're already here and making a mess of the Animus Threads so that the aeri and estus energy of the Aurs don't kill them."
    "So we are going to need an army, and a large one at that," Nafury concluded. "What of the dragons? Can we get them to help us before they side with Earth?"
    "I don't know. I fear that they can turn the Awls against us as well."
    Nafury's eyes matched hers now with that fear. Such a combined strength would be unstoppable. It was then that he remember Xirel and how he had returned from Earth disabled and unable to speak. "What happened to Xirel..."
    "I know," Sybl replied. "I don't know what to make of it."
    "We have to find the one pulling all the strings, even if that means going to Earth." Nafury found himself staring at the pink flowers under their feet. This place was overly familiar beyond just his last Dream.
    "This was where I first met Cirrus when I was still Asil," Sybl said.
    Nafury's gaze shot back up to Sybl's. "The Dream I had--it was more a nightmare where Cirrus attacked me. He spoke of you as well."
    "This place is an exact replica of a canyon on Earth. He was just a human soldier at the time. When I found him, he was half-dead on this very field. It is true that the Chimera Mother carved this canyon in her fury against her own children. After that, however, the plumas carved it into something of my memory of Earth. I feel as if both this place and the original Cirrus is connected in some way."
    "Is Hino behind this?"
    "I don't know if Hino is playing a direct part in this," Sybl replied. "Either way, I don't want to assault Earth until I uncover who is behind this in the definite. Keep a close eye on Xirel, Nafury. All the Awls are connected to one another. If