He opened his eyes to the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen. Her white hair flowed with a glittering glow that made him forget the world. Her thin hands touched his grizzled face and a soothing voice comforted him, the only thing he heard in his head.

"My son, you are the one, you will free us all from this" the pause in her words filled him with saddness and fear of her leaving him. Taking away the warmth that filled him now, and all he wanted to do was to cling to her beauty, the frangrance of honeysuckle and briar seducing his senses.

"The dark ones are free, they are taking your kind, and we need to find out how to trap them again. Only then will your world and ours be able to again coexist."

She kissed him softly on the lips and he felt his heart explode and then he felt himself falling, almost floating down and when he opened his eyes he was in a rich plush bed. The roots were decorative vines hung with flickering lights, he heard a soft laughter to the right, turning his head he saw a gathering of frail girls, each as beautiful and glowing as the other. He watched as the washed his clothes and passed around his possessions...