Zari woke up and found himself staring at a replica of himself. He sat up, still on the floor, and looked. It was a large antique wardrobe mirror, almost the size of a door. There was a note and what looked like a large, perfect amethyst crystal on the floor, next to him. He looked around, and noticed how the pawn shop looked different. When he finally got up and looked out a window, he almost gasped. Outside, it was pitch black. As if the pawn shop were in the void. It was like before, when he was in the large gem replica, but this time he was afraid he would be alone in this dream. I guess this is the closet thing to a dream I'll have in the gem realm, he thought smugly to himself. When he reached down, and took the dark crystal, he looked in its depths and thought for a second. For me to be here... I must have poofed again. They're all probably worried sick about me. I wish I could tell them... I wish they could know. Know who I really am, and who Lief really is. Was. He used to be so powerful, controlling nature; but ever since the other three died, one at his hands, his powers turned into greed. He noticed the dark crystal wasn't amorphous, like how Lief had it last time he was in the tower. This just confirms Lief fused it with other gems, he concluded. Zari set the gem carefully on the floor, and looked around the pawn shop, hopefully for clues as to why it even exists. When he found a bookshelf, he pulled out an ancient book, and looked at it carefully. "Once Upon a Time," was the title. It looked older than any other book he'd ever seen. He flipped through the pages, and almost immediately became engulfed in fantasy stories... ones like the one he was living now.