She gasped when she woke.
It was pitch black dark when she first opened her eyes so she laid there a bit so her eyes could adjust to the darkness. The moon was high up, throwing its bright light into the room through the open windows. She had dreamt of that lady again and this time, it had been more disturbing than the last time and she had been having the dream repeatedly for eight days after the incident with Ryder and Eris.
Eris, she wondered what might have happened to him, since then she had not heard a word about him.