"Defeat the Dark Lord," Jim said. "He controls everything in this world. You defeat him and you wake up." He explained. "He has a weakness," he paused. Then suddenly a vine shot up from the floor beneath them. The vine pirced through Jim. Rina screamed in shock, jumping back only to feel a vine curl around her body. "His necklace..." Jim whispered. "The Dark Lord's necklace," he groaned then his eyes closed and he went limp. Rina stared at the body with sad eyes. She blinked back tears and noticed that the vines were curling around them. She tried to free herself, but the vines squeezed her tighter.

"Well, what can we do to get out of here? I mean the 'Dream' that we're in." Edward said, making the quotation marks with his fingers.

Jim looked at him. "To you it is a dream, but the dark Lord is real." He said to Edward. "He has the plan to change your dreams into nightmares, until you give into him and drink the potion. When you do even if you wake up you'll be under his control. This nightmare is real. You know how people say if you see yourself die in your dream you die in real life?" He asked. "Well, be warned, because if you die in this dream your never waking up." He cautioned. "But if you some how stop all this. Then you will wake up in the real world just as you had gone to sleep. You probably will only think of it as a bad dream. Your minds will probably not label it as real." Then he shrugged. "Then again maybe they will."

"How is it not a dream though? We fell asleep to get here, how can it not be a dream?" The thought completely baffled Edward.

Jim looked thoughtful for a moment. "She probably was trying to hypnotise you into drinking the wine. I'm sorry, but I never heard of any plans involving pink eyes." He admitted. "The Dark Lord usually would let you know of your task and yours alone. I suppose that was so no one would try to stop him."
Rina frowned. "So, you don't know how to stop him? Do you know how to get out of this dream?" She asked.
"No, I don't know how to defeat him," Jim replied. "I already told you this isn't a dream." He stated firmly. "You can't escape this place though. You can't escape his ruthless power."

"That's terrible...But it makes sense, But do you know about...We were just at a masked ball, but we fell down this hole because the doors were shut and you couldn't see anything out of the windows. There were these waitors and I think the waitress with the bright pink eyes did something to me..."

(okay =)

The couch was so small she could feel Edward's arm against hers. Rina looked at the man and wondered if he knew what was going on. "Do you know what is happening here?" She asked.
Jim turned towards where her voice had came. He nodded slowly. "I worked for the Dark Lord..."
"Dark Lord?" She asked.
He nodded. "The man who wants to rule the world."
She wondered if he knew this was just a dream. "This is just a dream though." She commented.
He chuckled, "That's what we all wish it was, Rina." He shook his head. His face was serious again. "He traps people here and is going to control them."
"How?" She persisted.
"That's where I came in," he sighed. "I was such a fool. I wanted to be saved from all of this. I made him a potion that would let him control a person, but they had to drink it." The wine! She thought to herself. "After a while I started to feel the weight of what I had done. I told him I would no longer work for him and he dropped me in this small cottage and blinded me, so I'd never be able to leave." Rina felt bad for the old man.

((No, I've been busy lol)

Edward glanced down at his arm.
"Oh, this? It was accidental!" He laughed and sat on what looked like a couch so small it should have been an armchair. It looked as though it hadn't been used in years. It's colour was bleached and faded with age.