She woke up with a start from her nap. The light was fading, but she heard the sounds of the demons down below in the hall having a feast. Mitsuhide was surprisingly absent from the room as she replayed the dream in her head. Everything had seemed so real in the dream but she didn’t know how it could be. Soon she saw the doorway in her mind that had been waiting for her to find it. As she walked through it she was somewhere else.She was standing in a darkened cave by herself. Upset and alone is the feeling that coursed between through her veins. Even now as the dream faded, she had the feelings. She saw the last images again in her head. It was the shattered bones scattered around her. They were calling out to her. She walked down the hallway made of stone until she could find the voices that were in her head.Mitsuhide knew she was awake and something was

1  The office that she worked in was a flurry of activity. Everything seemed to go wrong from everyone’s day to day work to the computers going down, and the IT department couldn’t find the problem. Her own work had been done, but when she found out that nothing from that day had been saved to the office’s mainframe, she knew a week’s work of research had been lost. She had a back up at her house but knew that re-entering all the data again could to take up to a week, plus any new research that came in and she would have to enter that as well. She shook her head at her boss when he began to realize that everyone would now be at least a week behind and he began to yell.The whole project that was now already three weeks behind on the research and the confirmation of the theories from the other research companies. She watched as her boss turned different shades of red. The change was slow, and as the day

    3        When she made it to her office an hour later as everyone had stopped her for the gruesome details of the night prior. She was disgusted with the behavior of the grown adults acting like school children waiting for the next piece of gossip. She forgot about the underside of how to be an adult. They were some unspoken accusations of maybe she didn’t do enough because she wanted the job that her boss had. This from a group of people who also could have jumped in and helped but did not.She hated them. Hated all of it. She went into the office and plugged in her drive. She uploaded the files and sat there looking as they were copied into the drive. She saved each one

 5       “You know who I am?“, she asked as she looked at the man who was staring at her.“Should I?“, he asked.“You said you like you knew who I was.“, she said as she let her disappointment show.“You do not know who you are?“, he asked.“No, I do not. I hit my head last night. It must have been hard. I don’t know who I am or where I am.“, she stated. “The first thing I remember was looking at the lake in darkness. I can remember certain things but not others. I knew the sound of the horse, but not the name of it. I knew a sword and how to use it, but can’t remember how I know. The man who brought me here said it is uncommon for a woman to be able to do what I did.”“You killed three men?“, Mitsuhide asked.“Yes

 7    “Do you see anything you wish to have?“, Mitsuhide asked as he followed her from stall to stall as she looked at everything.“Oh no, you have done too much already, Mitsuhide.“, she replied.“Have I?“, he asked. “I don’t see that I have. Do you like the colors in your room?”“The blue. Yes, it is my favorite.“, she replied.“You do not make it easy, Princess.“, he chuckled. “Let me get you something.”“Mitsuhide, I don’t need anything.’, she smiled.“Then I will have to guess, my dear.“, He said softly. The older man who was the stall keeper smiled knowingly at the exchange. He nodded to Mitsuhide and smiled softly toward the Princess.“Might I interest you in something My lord?&ldqu