"It's just a dream," I screamed as I stood my ground.

The water crashed towards me but it hit some sort of invisible barrier. The thing faltered and evaporated in a cloud of dark smoke. I looked around for Hassan and found him huddled near the tree line. I walked over and told him over and over again that it was just a dream. I left him as the dream began to fragment. I woke up to the sound of the screams from Hassan's tent.

I leapt to my feet and the entire camp awoke and converged. A shaken Hassan emerged from his tent with help from Fahkir. He was...