Free Return To Pandora: Book 1 in The Pandora Series by Kayla Smith Page B

making myself some breakfast I heard the door open and I readied myself for a fight until I saw Zack. Relief washed over me as I watched him walk towards me. When he took me into his arms I lost it. I balled my eyes out and I told him everything that happened in my dream.
    “It’s just, it felt so real. I mean the pain from the wounds and everything,” I said in between sobs. He just held me and let me cry out what was left of my worries, clearly not sure of what to think about my dream either.
    That was until he told me he had a similar dream, only it involved him, with the same two people from my dream.
    “This has to mean something,” I said getting up and heading towards the stairs that would lead to my mother’s room. “I’m going to wake up my mom and we’re not going anywhere until we have worked out some form of a plan or even a reason why we both had the same weird life threatening dream.”
    I was about to knock on her door when it flew open and she had this weird worried look I had never seen before.
    “What’s wrong?” I asked, afraid that something had happened.
    “I should ask you the same question,” she said quickly recovering from whatever had spooked her.
    “Mom, Zack and I had the same dream. Except my dream involved me and his involved him and we both died.”
    Her expression confirmed that she too had a similar dream and she wasn’t happy about it either.
    “Come along now, we have much to discuss and quickly if you wish to continue the charade with those two,” she said as she walked down the stairs and into the kitchen.
    She helped herself to the pot of fresh coffee I had prepared. Then she at the table and looked me in the eye as if to suggest that what she was about to say couldn’t leave this room.
    All I did was nod my head and she began her story.
    “It doesn’t happen often, but when it does happen it can’t be taken lightly. You both had the same dream for a reason. In Pandora when you dream about your own death it is either to warn you that there is nothing you can do to stop it or to help you to stop it. With the woods of Pandora in your dream we know that it is a good six months away, so we have plenty of time to plan ahead and get it stopped. But we can’t kick them out of the training, we have to go on as if nothing has changed and trust me when I tell you that it will be very difficult. You need to get past that nightmare and act as if nothing has changed. Continue to practice your secret abilities in private, because we have no idea who else, if anyone, is involved and if they get the slightest view into your glorified abilities we will have no advantage.”
    “But how does dreaming about our deaths now help us in the future? It’s not like I can plan to not pair anyone up with them when we get to Pandora. And how did you know where we were? Did you dream the same thing?” I couldn’t help but get all the questions I had out at once and I knew Zack was thinking the same thing.
    “What you don’t know is that I hold a different power. One that very few people in Pandora have ever heard of. I actually didn’t know what it was called until I came here into this world. It’s called a premonition but I don’t get them like you see in the movies. Mine come to me only in my sleep and only ones that are vital for me to know to help me cope with what is to come or to help me stop it from happening.”
    She paused as she studied her hands with tears forming in her eyes. Then when it felt like forever had passed she spoke up and it made me wish she hadn’t. “I watched your father, on the night he was taken from me. I didn’t actually see them kill him, all I saw was their group being caught coming out of that tunnel in the kitchen. Sometimes not seeing their deaths is a lot easier to cope with than actually seeing it happen. Watching you provoke Leah into killing you was probably your best chance at a quick and less painful death, but I never want to watch you die