When she had first heard that her father was taken, it had not seemed real.

The landscape that had once seemed so real was now reduced to outlines.

That I could kill a man has never seemed real to me.

The life that he had left inside her seemed barely real.

The knowledge they contained seemed so much more real.

She knew that was foolish, but right then the idea seemed very real and scared her something fierce.

But none of that had ever seemed real to me.

That black thing and the knight had seemed almost real.

It was only a dream, yet it had seemed so real!

Small wonder that his dreaming had seemed real to Charlie.