Chapter 28For a few seconds I felt like I was all powerful and in charge of the dream. I felt the energy building behind my outstretched arms like water behind a dam. Above me the night hag stood, a twisted and diseased duplicate of myself. She sneered at me as if my efforts amounted to nothing and I felt a knot of fear in my gut. In my mind I could see tendrils of energy leaking through my dam, even rising out of my own pores and she stood there surrounded by the corpse flowers and sucked in the energy. Behind me Pam and Ian banged on the elevator doors. They still hadn't woken up.
I pictured Maggie Russell, the Wiccan empath that had taught me to channel and control my ability. She'd tell me to be calm, to breath. I could almost hear her voice in my head. I lowered my arms, inhaled and
