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?”

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

few moments. “I could come to the

“It needs to be right now. Is there

quiet for another few moments. I bit my

see or feel something during hypnosis that frightens you or makes you feel bad, you might get hurt if I’m not

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 to stop

have a comfortable place to lie down? And can you dim the

dimmed the lights, leaving only my bedside table lamp on, and then quickly laid down on my

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 suddenly felt a change inside of

a dream, half out of a

Rhodes’ voice floated across to me as though he was whispering into the wind across

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

first. But slowly, a landscape began to form around me; one

The cliff.

do you see?” Dr. Rhodes

cliff,” I said. “With pine trees on one side… It’s raining, and the

paused. I looked around a little more, and turned fully around. My heart practically

someone else here,”

walk up to

do it, but I also knew that this was just hypnosis, and it wasn’t real. Deep down, I knew that

real that it was deceptive. If I didn’t focus on the fact that

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