Screeeech!
Tylisia awoke with a start, her eyes wide with fear. Her eyes darted around, looking for the source of the sound that had awoken her. She could have sworn she heard it; it was too real to be in her dreams. The sound still rung in her ears; an owl's screech, frightened and threatening, the sound of an attack.
But it wasn't only the alarming screech itself that frightened Tylisia. What scared her the most is the fact that the sound almost seemed familiar to her...as if the owl it had come from was someone she knew. She hoped with all the might in her gizzard that she was wrong.