Second Dream (Heart)

== Summary ==
After the half way point in the story, Stacey has a second dream. Her first dream, introducing the "prune faced man," and the "prune faced lord" introduced the Silent, personalized as strange demon like creatures. Her second dream continues from this, giving more depth to this subtle undercurrent in the story that hints at the coming of the Silent.
Stacey wakes up and feels around her--she's surrounded by watermelons. Apparently, she appeared in a watermelon cart. She pushes off one and light comes, though, orange and yellow, and a musty smell that smells like someone put a piece of chocolate in the microwave and warmed it up too long. Several eyes trace her as she climbs out of the watermelons and she finds herself in the center of a market. Some of the demon creatures talk to her angrily in English, but a short prune faced man with a long robe and dunce-like cap comes up and calms them and introduces himself. He says that the prune faced lord told him about her. "Come, I am your guide." Stacey obediently follows, already knowing how this goes. 
He shows her various statues, marketplaces, stadiums, works of art, as if this is all totally par for the course; as if Stacey came here just for this--and just as she thinks in her head that she's here to learn more, the prune faced prophet says, "and oh you're here to learn about your ability and the world. The world is not as it seems. Things are changing." Just then the first prune faced man appears and they walk down a long road that goes downhill to a castle of sorts, and down below are the many creatures she saw from the first dream that were worshipping an enormous statue. They were here, again, with the statue in front of them still. 
The prune faced prophet explains what they're doing and Stacey asks why. He says because there is a new ruler of earth. Stacey doesn't know why but at that moment she runs away into a forest, where plants and trees are moving like they are alive. At this point, a nymph comes that she saw in one of her daydream visions and combs a way through the forest, bidding her to follow. Behind them the prune faced creatures are following. The nymph is caught and is beheaded right before Stacey's eyes, and Stacey runs through the forest coming into a cave, like in her first dream. It's dark and wet, and she hears dripping, until she comes to a firelight, following it until she comes to a circle of the prune faced creatures standing around something burning in the fire. Then she wakes up.
The dream's meaning is to restate the fact of the Silent coming to earth as well as the trickery of the prune faces. The fire at the end and it's meaning will be explained later.