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Weapons all of them, she was falling through a door in the bottom of the trap, almost like falling to wonderland. Faces swirled around her, wicked, twisted smiles. Laughing, faces of disapproval, faces of disappointment even. I tried.... I couldn't do anything. The tiger thought tail wrapped around her ears down. Shamed, I should've been training, I should be stronger. I'm sorry.... I failed you all...

The dream faded off, the pain came back. The coldness, it was like hitting rock bottom, but there was a voice speaking. She wanted to stir, look to see who it was, but she couldn't. "If you are here it's a good sign."

Willow felt confused, why was it a good sign? All her friends, all those she knew were to her knowledge being tortured or turned to weapons, and she... she was supposed to be dead. Then something about the conclusion of the trails, this didn't make any sense, it was the soulless one's trickery wasn't it?

Soon another voice, this one was... familiar. It dawned on her that this wasn't from the soulless one; this... was some twisted dream with the secretary of the school in it. Willow wanted to ask what was going on, her eyes fluttered open, looking around. It seemed real enough, like if she tried she could reach out and touch Arel and the odd cloaked lady.

They did perfectly fine, Willow paused, slowly the realization that it was something the clans did that was actually the reason for the dream with the hunters. She wanted to get up, wanted to talk to the cloaked lady, ask her why, but the strength to do so just wasn't there. Eventually they seemed to leave and Willow fell back asleep.

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She wasn't sure how long it took her to wake up again, nightmares still plagued her. Unlike normal though, as she started to wake she wasn't in her normal sleeping place. She rolled over the rocks under her made a crushing noise. "uuuggghhh....." She slowly sat up, such a pain. Her head hurt the tiger rubbed at her head with her forepaw.

"Oh, my head...." her ears were down as she looked around, her scareon was whimpering, eooonnnnnn. "Hush." She snapped suddenly. Staring at the scareon that was hungry. Willow looked around, How in jacks name did I get back in my room? Her fur bristled, wondering if someone had brought her back and she never noticed it, just like if they'd took her to the gym. "UGH if they've been in my room.... I swear...."

Her tail twitched as she looked around her room starting to make sure no one had touched anything besides having just dragged her out of it. Her nose twitched the scareon was following behind her whimpering. There was a sigh as she shifted into her student form. "Geeze, I'll feed you. Just shut up." She growled moving to her mini-fridge and pulling out a few strips of bacon and throwing it at the scareon before chewing on one herself looking around the room.

"I'm going to have to complain about this." She said as she sat on the mini-fridge.

"I don't even know how they got in without my noticing it." She paused, a thought crossing her mind, "Maybe it's not about complaining... maybe I should be asking how they got past me." She paused opening the fridge again to pull out a bottle of water taking a moment to open it and sip on it. Giving a small nod, "I need to find out how they got past me so I can keep them from doing it again."

Her tail flickered in thought, "If I don't they might do it again, or it might be worse." Her nose wrinkled, "Those damn hunters aren't getting in my room." She looked at the scareon, "Why didn't you do anything about intruders? You know better." She bopped it on the nose with her bare foot. Wiggling her toes after a second looking, "Hm... maybe I should talk to the heirs. It'd be faster, I'm not sure I could get Arel to tell me how."

She finished off the bacon before looking around and sliding off the mini-fridge and picked up her rock-rake. She started fixing the waves and curves in the rocks so everything was flat, there was a pause before moving over to something she'd picked up a few weeks ago, she read on the box it made noise that was supposed to be soothing. Her tail flickered in an irritated motion as she flipped through the noises it could make, finally pausing on one that sounded like rain, and then picking up another one and turning it to music from a mandolin. She picked up the rake again and moved back to her work, moving with the music.

She rearranged the larger rocks as she moved letting the music calm her. She'd attempt to talk to someone about how they got past her later. Right now, she just needed to regroup after those nightmares and the trials. There was a pause as the tigress noticed, near where she'd woken up there was a piece of paper... "What's this?"

She took a second to pick it up, EXAM AUTHENTICATION APPROVAL Willow looked at the paper curiously, "Huh.... so I don't have to take an exam this time?" Well that would be interesting.