"Oh? That's the slave? Looks pretty weak, if you ask me." A girl said.

"Well, no one did ask you." a boy replied.

In front of me, were masters siblings. There was a girl who had blueish black hair, tied up in a pale Ribbon. The boy next to her had the same hair color, but his hair was shorter and he was taller. The boy had the same yellowish eyes as master, while the girls were dark gray. The two other ones were a little boy and girl, they both had pale almost white blond hair and big watery blue eyes. Eyes so full of hope and dreams and happiness.

"This is my younger brother, Marcus and my younger sister, Marie. And these are the twins, Caleb and Katie. Oh, and I'm Jefferson. Or Jeff. Call me 'sir Jeff' ok? Fathers coming tomorrow, we have to set up his room and stuff." Jeff said. I nodded.

Marie walked over to me and swiped off my glasses. The world instantly became a blurr. "What do you need these for? You can see fine." She said.

"Aaww, come on Marie, give her her glasses back." Jeff told to his sister. It was silly of me to think that all of Jeff's family would be as nice as him. Jeff took my glasses from her and gave them back to me. I could see again. I wasn't sure what to do next, Jeff hadn't briefed me on that.

"Why's your hair weird?" I heard Caleb say. "Did you paint it?" He asked. "Can you not talk?" He said after a second.

"I-" I started but was soon interrupted.

"She spoke before, of course she can talk insolent weasel." Marcus said. "Why don't you go and get our things? They're in the car."

Car? That was odd, most Noble family's used carriages, to be more properly noticed by the public. I nodded to him.

"Well, speak up girl! I didn't here a yes!" Marcus shouted.

"Y-yes." I stuttered. I left to gather their luggage. There was a lot of it. This was going to take a wile, especially with an injerd shoulder. The bags were all really heavy, and it took like, an hour to get than all from the car to the mansion. Then I realized I had to take them up the stairs. I sighed. "Well Elaina, I guess I should thank you for making me carry your stuff around all the time." I said to myself.

I dragged each bag upstairs, with one hand. Oh wow, it was hard. When I got them all up at the top I stopped and looked out the long tall window. It was a nice view. Then I remembered my dream. I was on a big grassy hill in it right now, I wonder what will happen next if I continued the dream?

I felt a hand on my back. I tensed up and turned around quickly. It was Marie. "Well, what are you doing?" She said. I just looked at her. "Bring my bags to my room already..." She said and left. When she was gone, I saw Caleb run over from the hall way.

"Hi, I'm Caleb! Can we be friends?" He asked me in a whisper. I looked down at him. He probably didn't have many friends.

I smiled at him, the first smile I had done since I got here. I knelt down to his level "OK Caleb. I'll be your friend." He looked so happy.

"OK, but we have to be secret friends! Ok, um... Slave? Is that your name?" He said.

"No sweetie, its not. My name is Ellen." I told him.

"Ok, Ellen!" He chirped. He took a step back, and tripped. He was falling towards the stairs. I lunged forward and grabbed him, creating a ball of protection around him. We fell all the way down the stairs. I rolled and somersaulted down them. Ooowww.

We landed at the bottom of the stairs, and Caleb jumped up. My shoulder hurt even more now. "Wow! That was so fun!" He yelled.

"Caleb! What was that?" I heard Marie yell from the top of the stairs. I was lying on the floor. "You!" She yelled. "What did you do to Caleb!"

"We rolled aallll the way down the stairs!" Caleb said jumping up and down. I had a splitting head ache. I hoped my shoulder didn't re-break.

Marie looked really mad. "There's a security camera, in that hall, let's go see what REALY happened. I had to put my hand on my fore head to stop it from hurting so much.

We walked to the camera room. Marie played the entire video on speed up, until she got to the point where Caleb came in. She saw me talk to him, and how he tripped. She saw me grab him and protect him before he fell. You could hear his laughter through the video as we tumbled down. She saw how she had run up and accused me wrongly.

She turned to me. "You.... Saved him?" She said, confused

I looked at the floor. She saw my hand on my fore head. "Put your hand down, what are you doing?" She told me. I moved my hand. It felt wet. My right eye suddenly hurt. Marie screamed, and I looked at my hand. It was covered in blood. I felt myself swaying. I landed on the floor and everything went black.

Meow... A cat. A cat? That means.... I opened my eyes. I was back in the dream. It was still night. I could see the entire town. I could see the river I had fallen into. And I could see the cliff I fell off. Maybe I don't want reality. Maybe I should stay in this wonderful dream forever. I could certainly have a better life here. Meow. The cat rubbed its face against me. I sighed, and sat up. It was getting cold.

I wanted to run. Run down the hill, not because of fear, but because I wanted to. I did. Laughing, with the cat hanging off my shoulder, I ran down the hill. I tripped and rolled down the soft grass halfway down. When I got to the bottom, I was laughing my head off. The cat seemed happy to. I hugged it.

I stood up, and started walking through the Forrest. Then I heard screaming. Screaming? I rushed towards the sound. It was the village, a house was on fire. How did that happen? Then I saw it. The white tiger. It had someone in its mouth, and it looked like it was going to run away. It was standing on top of the burning house. The tiger turned its head towards me and stared into my eyes.

People were running and screaming, but I only saw the tiger. It jumped off the roof, and put down its victim. It walked slowly towards me, and stopped when our faces were inches apart. It continued to stare into my eyes, my soul. I raised my hand in front of my face. The tiger seemed interested.

I put my hand on its head. I patted its head.

Bam!

A gunshot sounded.