{"id":2569,"date":"2025-11-30T23:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2025-11-30T23:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:53:32","slug":"lesson-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/?p=2569","title":{"rendered":"Lesson #4"},"content":{"rendered":"Lesson Four: TEB A Dream or A Vision
Selena jerked awake, heart racing as she held her breath. The tension in her throat burned and her skin crawled with itchy skin as she searched the darkness for any movement in her one room apartment. Loosening her muscles, she slowly released the air she had gulped as if she were about to drown. Her heart still pounded. Her skin alerted to sense any movement of air around her or change in the atmosphere. There! Was that a disturbance near the clothes closet? A mass of space darker than the grey room? \u2018I can\u2019t tell \u2026 hard to distinguish anything when the drapes are closed to those streetlights on Piedmont Avenue.\u2019 She didn\u2019t want to move but she was beginning to shiver. \u2018Nerves or chills?\u2019 She couldn\u2019t tell but she knew she had to decide a plan of action. Either jump up and run toward what she thought might be collection of evilness or run toward the Blade of Purity and the light switch at the same time. She shuddered and thought she saw movement. Usually, she could detect the vibe of whatever had invaded her space. Her sensitivities were ever so keen when she had prepared herself for her hands on healing practice, but right now? \u2018I was just too deeply asleep. I must\u2019ve left some opening unguarded. A dream. That\u2019s what made me weak.\u2019 That dream of Flynn and the etchings on the wall of that cave. \u2018Where have I seen that cave before?\u2019 The darkness moved again and this time Selena focused her eyes on the blade and the light switch. Screaming at the top of her lungs she lunged at the table beside the switch. Her foot tripped over a bunched rug and she sprawled on the floor missing the table and feeling darkness begin to cover her back and buttocks and surround her head. She couldn\u2019t breathe, or see, and the stench made her gag. ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"