Dylan I knew that I was awake, but I was not moving and I wasn’t able to see anything. Breathing felt odd to me, like if it wasn’t easy to pull the air into my lungs or push it back out. Scenting the air didn’t give me anything either, because it smelled stale and it held a stinging bleach undertone to it. Unsure if I was just coming out of a dream and if I just wasn’t fully awake, or if this may be another dream, I reached out to Rae. While she didn’t respond to me, I felt her there, but it was as if she was too tired or worn out to respond to me. Okay, I told myself as I tried to figure out how to either wake myself up fully, or figure out what was going on. Flexing my fingers and toes would be an easy way to determine if I was in that weird half sleep half awake state. As my t

