As the dragon fell to the ground, Shamrock lowed his shield. He lowered is sword arm, resting the tip of the sword’s blade on the grass.
Dream Clover
NaNoWriMo 2008
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“We’ll start by going to the red continent,” the ten-year-old boy with short blond hair and blue eyes said. “We should be able to pass through to the red planet and locate the red jewel that way.”
“Planets are big,” the seven-year-old boy pointed out. His brown eyes looked up at the reddish afternoon sky, the wind blowing over his curly brown hair. “How can we find one little jewel on an entire planet?”
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“Sister, Sister,” a dark-haired young girl cried out in her peoples’ native language while she pushed the bedroom door open. She carried a lantern to light her path to the curtains. The girl pulled the curtains open across the wide window, letting light into all corners of the large room. The girl hurried next to the side of the spacious bed, setting the lantern on the desk. “Why did you hide under the covers, Sis? I saw something amazing!”
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Sarah opened her eyes. The light her of desk lamp reflected off of of Samuel’s mirror sitting beside Sarah. She sat up at her desk, and found the green jewel next to the mirror. “Tonight,” Clover’s voice echoed in Sarah’s mind, “you’ll enter the mirror. You’ll see people in trouble. Help the people before Shamrock arrives.”
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As her desk clock turned to 8:00PM, Sarah closed her notebook. Her math work always took the longest to complete. She reached for her vocubulary notebook next, but stopped at the sound of a knock on the door. “Come in!”
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“Everything’s so dusty,” Clover said, sliding her shoes through the dirt as she walked.
“That’s ’cause it’s just like the wild west,” Shamrock said, eagerly moving from one site to another. He stopped by every house, every cactus, every tavern, and every shop. People filled the streets and buildings, wearing leather vests and tall boots, and some brought their horses with them. “I’ve never seen one of these dreams with so many people in it before!”
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Sarah sat up in her bed. Shamrock stood by her bedroom door.
“Are you all right?” he asked. He handed the green jewel to Sarah.
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“Are you ready?” Shamrock asked Clover.
Clover nodded. After being without her wand twice, she kept a tight grip over it. She didn’t want to face another night stuck behind a dresser, but she felt confident that even if this did happen, she would be ready for it.
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Of all things, I forgot to take my laptop’s power supply cord with me, leaving me with only enough battery life for one commute. I could have written a little during the commute home, but decided to play “Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2″ instead. I’m well within my writing goals, so I can do that.
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Shamrock appeared in Sarah’s bedroom. He apologized to Sarah for vanishing the night before. “I used too much magic. If I use too much, I wake up, and I can’t dream anymore until the next night.”
