Dream Master Nightmare: Part 5

By THERESA BRESLIN, Illustrator DAVID WYATT

But then, just as the dream had started to get going, Cy had had a different idea. It had occurred to him that it might be a bit more exciting to be an actual Viking, or at least take part in a Viking raid. And no sooner had the thought clicked into place when suddenly he was running with this girl through wynds and alleyways in some medieval city.

Cy looked around him. Ending up in a cramped hovel, accompanied by an old man and a bossy girl, being pursued by bloodthirsty barbarians was certainly not what he had intended. This dream was going way off course.

"You are what you are," said Hilde. "A swineherd."

"Nope," said Cy. "Not this time. This is my dream, so I am what I want to be."

"Your dream," Hilde repeated in disbelief. "You think this is a dream?"

"It"s not an ordinary dream," explained Cy. "Usually when you dream, your dreams are inside your head. But with this," he held up his piece of dreamsilk, "it works the other way about. It"s part of my Dream Master"s dreamcloak. Using it, I can take myself right inside my own dream. So now I"m practising being a Dream Master. This is my dream, which means I decide what happens ..."

Publisher: Random Houes, $16.95 Age group: 10 + years