Moana

I went to sleep that night with anger still in my heart for Edrick.

When I woke up, however, that anger turned into fear.

I found myself no longer in my bed, but I was now at the little desk that was in my room. And it wasn’t just that, either. I had my sketchbook lying on the desk in front of me, and what was drawn on it…

Was the knife.

I gasped and quickly snapped the sketchbook shut. Why was this happening to me? I stood, knowing that I needed to tell someone, but I couldn’t tell Edrick. If I told him, then he would likely only freak out even more, and I already felt like a prisoner.

These drawings had to be prophetic. And the only way that I could get to the bottom of what they really meant was by accessing whatever part of my brain that they were coming from. Maybe then, I could start to use them to my advantage before something really bad happened.

It was late, but Dr. Rhodes did mention that I could call him anytime I needed anything. I quickly pulled out my phone and dialed his number with shaking hands.

“Hello?” he answered a few rings later. “Is everything alright, Moana?”

let out a sigh of relief. “Dr. Rhodes, I need your help. I’ve been having more dreams… I

moments. “I could come

now. Is there any way you can do it over the

for another few moments. I bit my lip as

but it’s not easy. And if you see or feel something during hypnosis that frightens you or makes you feel bad, you might get hurt if

knew the risks going into it, but I didn’t care. I needed to get to the bottom of this, and something in me was telling me that I needed to do it now. Time was ticking, and somehow I felt that figuring out the source of these visions might help figure out how

with a sigh. “Do you have a comfortable place to lie down? And can you dim

bedside table lamp on, and then quickly laid

me into a state of hypnosis. I pushed my mind to open up to the idea, but for a long time nothing happened, just like the last time that we tried. In fact, I was about to call it quits again when I

though I was half in a dream, half out of a dream. My mind felt

do you feel, Moana?” Dr. Rhodes’ voice floated across to me as though he was whispering into the wind across a pond. It felt

replied, my tongue feeling heavy in

I want you to try to picture a place. Any place. Just let the image come into your mind, and don’t

I did as Dr. Rhodes said. As my eyes were closed, everything was dark at first. But slowly, a landscape began to form around me; one that I had seen

The cliff.

see?” Dr.

I said. “With pine trees on one side… It’s raining, and the sky is dark and cloudy.

more, and turned fully around. My heart practically stopped as I saw a figure standing off

else here,”

walk up to that person?” Dr.

heart sink at his question. I was scared to do it, but I also knew that this was just hypnosis, and it wasn’t real. Deep down, I knew that it was Michael; but

heavily. Even the rain soaked my clothes; it was all so real that it was deceptive. If I didn’t focus on the fact that this was just a vision, I felt for sure as though I would suddenly get stuck in this vision and would never be able to

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