Timeless Dreamer - Prologue

"Leah, please tell the class the answer to the problem on the board?"

My eyes shot open. A few people snickered. I'd fallen asleep in class...again. I looked up at the old fashioned chalkboard without sitting up, and mentally sighed. It was something the teacher had taught while we were asleep.

"Miss Hartley. Today, please." The teacher said with a mix of annoyance and amusement.

"Okay, um..." I paused. "x=14."

"Wrong. You picked a horrible day for a nap." There was some muffled laughter. As the teacher moved on to explain how to do the problem, the girl sitting next to me passed me a small folded up note.

'Oh, how the mighty have fallen.'

I glanced sideways and could see the girl's muffled laughter. After shoving the note into the desk, I watched mindlessly as the teacher continued to write more and more complex equations on the board.

For most of my school life I had been a test acing, study centered student. But lately I've been sleeping more and more, mostly in school, causing my grades to drop significantly. And the same strange dream came every time I slept.

It's pitch black, and a boy with smoky black hair and pale green eyes appears and walks towards me. He stops right next to me and whispers in my ear,

"When the three are joined, death itself will stop."