plagued by a nightmare , kaitlyn woke before sunrise , and then , unable to get back to sleep , she left her bed and went into the kitchen , where she fixed a cup of peppermint tea and honey , hoping it would help dispel the last vestiges of her nightmare-a horrible dream in which their attacker had been the victor and it had been zack sprawled on the ground in an ever-widening pool of blood , his head separated from his body .