Dream Master Nightmare: Part 1

By THERESA BRESLIN, Illustrator DAVID WYATT

When you dream, where do you go? Who decides where the dream is to be - or what is to happen? I am a Dream Master and I control the dreamworld, follow the rules for a good dream. For there are rules - rules that should not be broken ...

"Move!" shrieked the girl as Cy skidded to a halt at the entrance to the house. She elbowed him hard in the back. "Get inside! They're right behind us!"

There was a thud, and the sound of splintering wood as an axe crunched into the door just to the left of Cy's head.

"See?" the girl shouted right into Cy's face. "Now come on!"

For the briefest second Cy hesitated. The girl pushed past him, flung the door open, then grabbed his arm and dragged him inside.

"Put the bar across," she ordered him, her bright blue eyes snapping with impatience, "and then help me with Grandfather."

Cy looked around helplessly. What bar? Across where?
The girl was by the hearth in the middle of the floor helping an old man to his feet. She glanced up at Cy.

"There!" she shrieked again, pointing to a wooden stave propped upright behind the door.

Publisher: Random Houes, $16.95

Age group: 10 + years