I yawned loudly and Master Evan smoothed my hair. They’d worn me out earlier. If they finished what we had started earlier, I would be too tired to enjoy it. That did not particularly bother them, no one felt denied.

“It is time for sleeping,” Master Damien announced rising and stretching.

We crawled into bed as a group perfectly content to rest and I dropped off to sleep.

“Where are we?” Christof asked looking around the large crowded auditorium.

It was the school near the motel. This was a branch campus to the local community college. I had planned to attend the next semester’s courses.

“Again with the dreams, Ciara?” Damien questioned leaning his tall frame against a desk beside us.

I felt rushed and frantic. My pen was buried in the bottom of my bag and I’d never find it in time to take the test. The paper I was supposed to be filling out kept disappearing off the desk. Failure was imminent if I didn’t find a pen and hang onto the paper.

is a dream. There

anxious and fret, but it wasn’t possible. My men didn’t feel anxiety in this situation, just

exact,” I said Looking around. “I had planned to apply to take classes the next semester. If I got a degree, I could get a better job,” I explained. “I wanted to

In my room at the motel I had my application all filled out. I had been figuring out

surprisingly fast and I couldn’t hide it. This dream had been ripped from me, just like everything else. I would never be able to

My anger was misdirected, he believed. They took good care of me. I had done a horrible job of looking after myself. He shuddered remembering

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him in the dream. “I was going to make it better. It

mind and that was not present in dreams. The anger rolled through me and I wanted

through the halls of the school and onto the road. I ran as far as I could, but I could not escape

this. The sense of loss was too great and I crumbled beneath it. Moving quickly I went into the bathing

prayed for my child. Her life would be free, I

had persuaded the other men to let me

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