Her tone was unsettling for her mother. Hina had never addressed her like that before. She had decided that she would tell the entire story to her mother using a fake name of the person involved. But, when she started off, she made it out to be a dream. She said, ‘Maa, I saw a dream three days back. It has really scared me. I was lying on a rock near Haji Ali when a strange woman came up to me. I was sleeping while she kept staring at me. She held my hand and started reading my palm without even waking me up. She closed her eyes after seeing the lines on my palm and exclaimed, “The time when day will no longer be day and night could no longer be called night, a boy will appear out of the blue in front of you and will try to speak with you.”’ Darakhshan had a knife in her hand. She kept it aside and started listening to Hina’s dream seriously. Hina realized that Darakhshan was all ears. Hina said that when that strange woman was talking to her, she was asleep but it was as if she was dreaming the same thing. So, it was not just the dream but the dream within that dream which scared her as well. Darakhshan did not really understand this dream-within-dream story, but she asked, ‘What happened next?’