✧The Earthe of the Elves✧

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Mia's POV

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A motor roars by, fading as it gets farther from me, but I don't see a car.

I'm in the woods, but all I see is green. The dirt, the bird that chirps and flutters past, the sky. The outline of a house I see in the distance is all grey, monotone. The only color I can see is green. I walk forward, but my feet make no noise as I step on a pile of leaves. In fact, now that I'm aware, I'm not even breathing, but my lungs feel fine.

What is happening?

Green.

Why am I only seeing green?

I recognize this place. Where?

My eyes wander to the grass, bright green. It's all green.

I hear voices, calling me back.

A leaf falls in front of me, and I reach an arm out to grab it, even though I make no conscious decision to. It is green, too.

A second later it crumbles, turning to dust and blowing away with the wind.

The rest of the leaves blow to dust as wind hits them, all green, all gone.

My eyes close.

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My eyes snap open and I sit bolt upright, coughing and grabbing someone's arm, I don't know whose. I blink, but my vision is blurry. I blink again. Still blurry.

I let out a frantic noise and pull my knees up, pressing my palms to my eyes and rubbing.

"Mia," I hear El say, and I feel a warm hand touch my shoulder. I drop my arms, which are shaking, and blink, almost crying out in relief when I see everything clearly. Heart hammering, I look around. I'm sitting on the floor next to the pool, soaked. Flint and Hal are crouched next to El, who is sitting next to me. Knox is on his knees on my other side, strands of his wet, blond hair hanging over his face and clinging to his cheeks.

"What the hell just happened?" He asks, rolling back on the balls of his feet. I shake my head and close my eyes, swallowing down an unnerved sensation.

"I- I had another dream-vision thing. I was in a forest, one I recognized, like before. But this time I-" I try to think of an adequate way to sum up what I saw and what I felt.

"I only saw green things. Everything else was in black and white, all I could see was green." I can still see green when I blink, so I resort to pressing my hands to my eyes again.

"What happened?" I ask, not looking up.

"I didn't see," Hal says. I open my eyes and look back up, relieved that blinking no longer flashes green across my vision.

"Well," Knox starts, fully sitting down and wrapping his arms across his folded legs. "You stopped moving, you were just floating there, but... You should've floated to the surface if you stopped pedaling your arms, right? Well you didn't, then your eyes rolled back in your head, and..." Knox shrugs, but he looks less nonchalant than he's trying to seem. "You woke up a few minutes later."

"That was scary, Mia," El says. I can tell. She looks shaken, Knox does too. Flint and Hal look worried but confused.

"Yeah, it was."

I quickly summarize my last vision to Hal and Flint, so they know what's been happening.

"Sooo... Does green mean anything?" Flint suggests. I shake my head, blowing out a breath. My mind is tired, probably from what I just went through, so it's hard to make any connections that make sense right now.