Fragments of memory, not my own, pull me into a place where light bends and the air hums with whispers I can’t understand. The ground dissolves beneath me. I am crawling through time, through battles with beings too vast, too alien creatures whose shapes my waking mind cannot hold. An ancient force grips me, hurls me toward the void. I am falling endlessly, the wind a scream in my ears and I think: This is it. But I never touch the ground. I wake, gasping, my heart pounding like a war drum. Was it a dream? Or was it my spirit, fleeing this body, this plane of reality? The line between what is real and imagined blurs in the light of my third eye.