The winter sun shone cold but bright but that wasn't why she was awake. It was the feeling of dread that woke the Baroness and the fact that she was soaking wet with cold sweat didn't help any but then she remembered her dream, if that was what it was, and she shivered and hoped that that was exactly what it'd been, a dream but she somehow knew he, her adoptive father and his friends, was gone and there was only one thing responsible for that and she knew it wouldn't be far away so now she had to decide what her future would be and who with.