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Sherry's sleep was about as peaceful as it ever was. Which was to say that she could have been having better dreams.

She was dreaming about a house. It wasn't the haunted house, or any house she recalled having seen before, but it was a house she was having trouble leaving.

Every door was locked. Every staircase vanished before she could reached it, the house shifting itself as if it had always been that way. She wasn't alone in the house. There were... things. Small things. Dead and oozy things - though when she tried to look at them they weren't there.

Sherry paused, hearing a sound. The sound of thousands of coins falling against each other. Coins or Dragon scales. There! Behind an old wooden door! The sound was coming from there! Sherry tried the door and it didn't budge. Locked, though there was no lock she could see. The sound of coins grew louder, and she thought she could see golden light peeking out from under the door. "No! Let me in! I'm here!" Sherry began to pound on the door. The door did not budge, and the sound of coins began to fade.

Sherry continued to pound on the door, not wanting to look behind her. She could feel the small dead things creeping closer again.

She could feel it. Things were getting closer, louder, even as the comforting sound of coins faded. She'd have to face it, whatever terror it was. She didn't want to. She - Sherry whirled at the touch and the voice. Her hand reached back, resting on the door to steady herself.

"Lucky?" She look at him as if she were trying to figure out what was different about him. "No, I'm not. I can't leave and I think Steve-" she paused, her brow furrowing.

Lucky was easy to focus on. The house was like a setting, dark and plain, the things in the shadows growing smaller. He seemed out of place. That was both unsettling and reassuring. To be honest though, Sherry was just glad to not be alone anymore.

"What are you doing here?" Sherry reached out to grab his arm. "How did you get in here? I don't remember how I got here. Lucky, we need to leave." She paused for a beat. "I don't know how to leave."

Sherry furrowed her brow at Lucky's reply. He seemed to know what was going on, at least more than she did. That was a little frustrating for some reason.

"But it's locked," she said when he mentioned trying the door. Lucky's thumbs up was given a look of doubt - but then something happened. If Sherry had needed to describe it she would have tried by using sound waves or energy waves- something that just seemed to roll through everything. Something had shifted - and the door was now unlocked. Sherry looked at Lucky in disbelief. "How?" There was something odd going on here, something she could almost grasp, but not quite. Almost like it was on the tip of her tongue. She continued to stare, too, but more at Lucky than at the door.

Tentatively, Sherry reached out and put her hand on the handle, then slowly pushed the door open. How had he unlocked it? "I'll, um, explain inside," Sherry said. If Lucky could unlock the door, then surely it was fine to tell him? Maybe he already knew.

It was silent now, the room beyond the door. Silent and gold. As the door swung open and Sherry stepped inside, leaving room for Lucky to follow. Mounds upon mounds of gold filled the cavernous room. Coins, goblets, jewelry, armour. Gold of all shapes and sizes and workings. And unseen light source seemed to flicker and shift with subtlety. The edges of the room that could bee seen were golden, too, and beyond those edges there were hints of a great golden cage. It was Sherry's memory of the Pride's treasure pile. Silent and cold as when she'd been left there.

"Steve is," Sherry said, looking around for any hint of the dragon she knew had been here moments ago, "a Legacy. My name for the golden legacy. It appears as a huge dragon - but it's left again. Left me alone."

Except she wasn't alone. Lucky was there. She turned to look at him again. There was still something she was missing about this, something she could barely reach, almost recall. "Lucky, what's going on?"