Dad begins to toss and turn. Shannon knows it's about to begin. She has to prepare herself ---for a nightmare of the worst kind. She thinks back to the writing assignment she had helped her youngest brother with. The assignment was to be about something that could be the worst imagined ...but she would never want to imagine this.

She remembers Samuel didn't much like the subject either. So they had changed the subject to pleasant dreams. They had talked about riding Arabian horses down sandy beaches.

    Shannon had lived out that dream.  She had ridden her Arabian horse on the island's sandy beaches.  But she had found a truer love.  True love is when we give up our dreams for what we believe in ---and she believes in Dad.