*Ella layed curled up, still in her dorm, about three days had been and gone and no one had yet noticed her some what of a 'disappearance'. She was wrapped in a bundle of blankets, although all was well with the castle's heat, she was clearly ill. Yet it was not a cold, she shivered violently and moaned quietly in her endless sleep as she tossed and turned occassionally, having the most terrible dreams. Her skin was as pale as the snow itself outside and her lips were a faint blue. Her eyes had not seen light since several days before and she was wasting away slowly, trapped in some sort of darkness, some sort of a dreamland, a cursed dreamland...*