While my teammade a circle of protection around me, I sat down knee to knee with Master Aki. My mentor was in his zone, eyes closed, breathing rhythmically in andout.
“Close your eyes,” he said in a trancelikevoice.
Idid.
“Now breathe until your mind is absolutely blank, and then search for the thread to your body. We all have one. An invisible link from there to here,” heinstructed.
I tried not to analyze his words or over-process them, just did as he asked. Breathing in and out, I let go of all my worries. The fact that I was sitting in the Dream Wars, while breeders from miles away tried to give me migraines was washed from myconsciousness.
Breathe in, breatheout.
Once my mind was clear, I sent out my awareness, searching for my body as if I were going to mentally communicate with it, like I did with Tatum or Damien. I felt lost, shooting in the dark, looking for something that wasn’t there, until I felt a snag. A familiar pull of my own consciousness. Trying not to let my spike of excitement break my concentration, I followed thethread.
Halfway down, I felt the tangled energy of another on this pathway. A breeder. She too was ‘linked in’ to my Earthbody.
“The breeder is tangled with my energy,” I said with my eyes closed, trying to keep panic from takingover.
“Doesn’t matter. You’re stronger. She’ll break away,” he repliedconfidently.
Right.
I kept following the link, trying not to feel the ickiness of the breeder who was right there with me. Once I got to the end, I gasped. I could sense my body, it was lying down in what seemed like some type of hospital bed. I didn’t know where I was, but it was somewhere foreign. Far from Vancouver or the United states. I wasn’t sure how I knew that, I just did. No one was with me, my energy signature was the only one in theroom.
Master Aki must’ve seen it on myface.
“Now wake up,” he said. “Push.”
Can I really controlthis?
I focused again on my body, in the supposed hospital room, and wrapped the words‘Wake up’in my mind, filling them with energy. I imagined what it would feel like to wake up, and then pushed that into my energy signature, into my body lying back on Earth. There was a cracking feeling as the breeder snapped away from the cord that was my energy, and then nausea rolled intome.
My eyelids snapped open. “I’m waking up!” I said, as that familiar feeling came over me, and I started to cry. I was crying a lot lately, but I couldn’t helpit.
‘Dawn, I’m waking up. Thank you for everything! I loved sky home. I’ll see you soon,’I sent toher.
‘Dawn was happy to show Kit sky home.”Her reply was instant.“To keep her safe. Kit will end the DreamWars.’
That was the last thing I heard before I woke up. It played around and around in my head, until my body left the Dream Wars, and my eyelids snapped open. As suspected, I was staring at the ceiling of a hospital room. The white draped linens smelled of bleach and I sat up, noticing there was a tube in my nose, and down my throat. I tried to scream, panicked, and a pretty blonde nurse ran in with wideeyes.
She mumbled something in another language, and then a male doctor camein.
“You’re American?” he asked, with an accent I couldn’t quiteplace.
I just nodded, pointing to the tube in my nose and throat. He motioned for the nurse to handle it, and she began to remove thetape.
“You were in a coma. We… didn’t think you would survive. The tube has been feeding you,” hestated.
Holy shit.That breeder bitch almost killedme.
The nurse motioned for me to breathe in deeply. I did and she yanked the tube out, making me gag. “Where am I?” I askedhoarsely.
“Copenhagen.”
I’d always wanted to see Denmark. Not like thisthough.
“Thank you so much for keeping me alive,” I toldhim.
He nodded, still looking at me like I was a ghost. “You were found under a bridge, in the middle of theroad.”
