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She dreaain, lost in a forest; in another, she was stuck inside a closet; in a third, she was carrying a heavy object of unknown type and could not put it down These dreaht them of their full power--no climax was reached, no mortal moment of terror--and as so, that the landscape she inhabited was harmlessly syht at sea was hardly a drea in a field All was quiet, yet she knew a danger was approaching The color of the air began to change, first to yellow, then to green The hair on her are; sireat wind swirled up around her She tilted her face to the sky Clouds of black and silver had begun to for explosion and a biting sround in front of her, blinding her utterly

She began to run Sheets of rain co clouds congealed into a single, fingerlike cone The ground was shaking, thunder crashing; trees were bursting into fla her It would sweep her into oblivion As the finger touched down behind her, the air was rent by a deafening, aniround was gone A voice, far aas calling her naher and higher, she was being hurled off the face of the earth…

"Lore, wake up!"

Her head jerked fro at her Why was he so wet? And as everything ?" Rand barked Rain and seawater were pelting against the windscreen "We’re in real trouble here"

As she attempted to rise from the bench, the deck heaved sideways The door flew open with a bang, rain and wind blasting into the pilothouse Another groan froan to heel in the opposite direction Lore went tu into the bulkhead For a , but then the e of the table for balance, she fought her way upright

"When the hell did this start?"

Rand was clutching the edge of the pilot’s seat "About thirty o It just whipped up frohtning flashed, the heavens shook; huge waves were crashing over the rails

"Get below and fire the engines," she ordered

"That’ll use the rest of our fuel"

"No choice" She strapped herself into the pilot seat; water was sloshing over the floor "Without hel to pound us to pieces I just hope we have enough left to get through this We’ll need all the thrust you’ve got"