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“Put me down,” I said. “What the hell is wrong with you?”
“Sit down,” Drake said.
My sleeping body crumbled to the floor and I winced. I had a feeling I was going to feel that when I woke up.
“What kind of test is this? What’s the point of you showing off what you can do?” I asked.
“The point is for you to regain control of yourself so you can wake up,” he said.
Raven’s warning came back to me. “I thought it was dangerous to wake yourself up from a dream.”
He lifted an eyebrow. “You have done your research.”
“So how do I stop this?” I asked.
“That’s your test,” Drake said.
I shook my head. None of my studies had prepared me for this. I’d learned about how dreams could be invaded and how you could fall into nightmares so deep and dark, they haunted your waking hours for the rest of your life. I read about recurring themes and favorite strategies and ways to talk yourself down if your dreams were hijacked by an incubus. I never once read about an incubus controlling you while you slept.
“Did you put me to sleep or was that Professor Flora?” I asked.
“That was me,” he said, proudly. “To be honest, I’m not nearly as good at this as Luka is, but I can make your life hell just the same.”
“Luka can do this too?” I asked.
“Sure,” he said. “It’s kind of a family trait.”
Shit.What if he did that to me? Or Raven? He could just force us to sleep? How the hell did I not know that?
I walked away from Drake, trying to recall what I’d read. Nothing had prepared me for this.
“If you’d prefer, we can go with traditional dream walking,” Drake said.
I looked over at the incubus just in time to see him transform into a dragon. My eyes widened as fear gripped my chest. I knew it wasn’t real butholy fuckthere was a giant dragon glaring at me.
Smoke billowed out through its nose and it opened its jaws and let out a burst of flames. I could feel the heat as I ran from the fire. I knew this was a dream, but I could feel the heat from that fire.
I climbed up the stone benches to the highest level of seats and stopped at the top. The dragon roared, the air from its cry blowing my hair around.
In all the books I’d read, I heard about how real dreams could feel, but I never realized just how real they’d be.
Drake’s dragon spread its wings and flapped, lifting off the ground as it headed toward me. I scrambled back down the seats and ran toward the classroom door.
I needed to buy some time.
I pulled on the handle and the door opened. I ran into the hall and my feet sunk. That’s when I realized I wasn’t in the hallway at school, I was in the middle of a vast expanse of sand.
The door was gone. I was in the middle of a desert with nothing but dunes of sand in every direction.
Hot sun beat down on me and I was already sweating.Shit.This was the weirdest dream ever. But at least I wasn’t looking at my sleeping self anymore. To be honest, that was the weirdest and possibly freakiest part.
I couldn’t wake myself up, but I had to end this dream. I just had no idea how I was going to do that.
In my research, I’d read that you needed to take control of the dream. Send the bad away. Create the dream on your turf. Direct it in a happy direction so you could send away the invading incubus.
Blowing out a breath, I tried to think of better locations than a desert. Warm beaches, tranquil forests, the school’s ballroom all decorated for a special occasion. Anywhere but here.
The room seemed to spin as if I was flying through space. Everything around me was blurred. It stopped all at once, leaving me standing in the middle of a forest. Birds called around me and I could feel the mist in the air. Dappled sunlight filtered in through leaves. It was warm and peaceful.
