*~*Zachary POV*~*
At first, when I started to wake up, I couldn't see anything. I could feel the air on my face, cold and crisp, as if I were outside, but that was all. Then the sounds started to come to me. The scraping of stone on stone, the rustling of branches and logs, and other more subtle sounds of the forest. I instantly felt the dread welling up within me as I understood what it all meant. I wasn't in the castle anymore. I'd fallen asleep, and while I slept I walked.
I'd once again left the castle in my sleep, doing gods knew what while I was out and about. Whatever it was, it couldn't be good. There was nothing good that would be causing this to happen. Nothing at all.
Then, as I thought these things, my eyes still shut, I heard another sound. A terrified sound. It was the screech of a rabbit, the sound it might make before a fox finished taking its life.