I guess I had fallen asleep that night. My thoughts were filled with fear of Tollio and worry for my sister Holly. How had he come here? And what did he exactly want from us? Suddenly my thoughts seemed to drown and an image appeared in my mind. The image showed the wizard, Tollio, conjuring a sword out of thin air and slicing Holly down in the middle. I woke sweating and shaking. I peered over seeing Holly fast asleep with a hand over her eyes. Was she crying? Did she too, know who he was?

I felt something brush against my ankle and I turned to see what it was. There sat a spark of light that formed my name- Sadie. Why did it do such a thing? I turned around to see if it was one of the wizards creations. He was nowhere in sight and the spark still sat there. Since I was wrapped in ropes I moved my foot to touch the spark and it had disappeared. Ropes? I looked down at myself again seeing ropes still tightly wrapped around on me. Once I had fallen asleep I did not remember anything. What had happened while I was asleep? I turned to look at Holly again with her hand on her eyes. I managed to wriggle my arm free and I bumped her hand off her eyes. There staring back at me was a creature with red eyes that took place in my sister's perfect blue eyes. Holly did not move, though her eyes were open and her skin was warm. What had Tollio done?!

"Holly," I whispered. "What has he done to you?" I tried to shake her a few times but her body lay as limp as can be. "Holly listen to me!" I yelled. Suddenly a hand reached from behind me and wrapped around my mouth. I tried to get Holly's attention but all that came out of my mouth were muffled cries. Something sharp and cold touched my neck and I looked down to see a silver dagger.

"Be a good girl and you may live to sunlight," Tollio said. "Maybe you will live to see your sister grow into what she really is. Maybe...." His grip began to tighten around my mouth and the knife came closer and closer.