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I barely landed in the portal.
The lava, smoke, and rock disappeared, giving way to a misty blue dreamscape, full of fog.
I walked on fog. The place didn't have a floor. It just floated. It was hard to see.
But I could feel the dream ether pulsating in the air.
I had waited a long time to feel it.
To finally feel in control again.
I clapped, imagining dream ether emanating into my hand in yellow rings.
Then the rings appeared.
I gathered them and threw them forward like Frisbees.
The rings whistled through the air, shining away the fog in their path.
And then I saw it.
The Somnient.
Running through the fog.
I had to stop it before it entered someone’s dream.
I willed the rings to form a rope around the beast’s hind legs.
The rope seized the beast’s legs and it roared.
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