Gate: The Animus I stepped through the vision gate and was running with a herd of buffalo- panicked and fleeing before a pack of wolves. Badger pushed his way through the herd and we ran together beneath a moon-lighted sky. “We’ve been running from the enemy a lot lately,” I observed, wiping a drop of […]
Read more "Chapter 70: The Wolves and the Devourer in the Garden of the Mind"Gate: Scattered Rose Petals I stepped through the vision gate and was running through a forest with Badger by my side. “Hello…” I started to say but he shushed me. “The hunters are too close,” he said. “Do not speak, do not even think of speaking, or they’ll find us.” Badger found a standing tree […]
Read more "Chapter 69: Freeing Psyche from Misogyny’s Tower"Gate: Prince of Spades or Prince of Swords I stepped through the vision gate and stood upon a plain looking up at an ivory tower set high upon a cliff. Badger appeared beside me and he began digging in the soil so I also knelt down and began shifting aside the dirt with my hands. […]
Read more "Chapter 68: The King of Spades and Starry Ivy"Gate: The New Moon above a Desert Oasis I stepped through the vision gate and was floating over a field full of living, grasping thorns. Thick vines flowed out of a central growth and snatched at my feet. “Badger!” I cried out as I was pulled down into the plant. “Help me, please!” A moment later my badger […]
Read more "Chapter 67: An Oasis for the Fox Prince"Gate: Nimue’s Grotto I stepped through the vision gate and stood on a barren plain. Steel escalators exploded from the ground and wound their way into the air in a suddenly chaotic scene of noise and motion. A set of stairs came into being under my feet and propelled me upwards into the sky. At […]
Read more "Chapter 66: Returning Nimue’s Sun to the Cave of Madness"Gate: Hestia’s Oven I stepped through the vision gate and stood upon a path made of black volcanic stone that shone with its own inner light. A blood red glow began to emanate from the stones beneath my feet so that a way forward was revealed and I followed the red path through the darkness. […]
Read more "Chapter 65: The Grief of Hestia"Gate: The Pineal Gland I stepped through the vision gate and found myself running along the edge of a forest. Behind me, there was a wall of shadow. I stopped running and it swept over me like an ocean wave, then there was silence. “Hello?” I called. “Is anyone here? I require a guide.” The mist […]
Read more "Chapter 64: The Oracles of the Mind & Dream"Gate: A Nightmare PART THREE I stepped through the vision gate in the shadows of Badger and Silence, and found myself standing at the edge of a shadowed pond beneath a night sky filled with stars. Stepping stones in the midst of the water led towards an island that held a distant castle and I […]
Read more "Chapter 63: The Quest to Find the Prince in Chains and the War with The Night King Begins"Gate: The Fool I stepped through the vision gate and saw myself as a star falling from the night sky. I fell along with other bright, shining stars. We tumbled towards Earth together like a wave of energy and light from the skies. When I hit the ground, I stood up and turned my face to […]
Read more "Chapter 62: Taking the Leap from the Tree of Life"Gate: The Magician I stepped through the vision gate and was standing in a world made of stone where a forbidding tower stood before me upon the earth. As I was adjusting to my presence in this new realm, the tower was struck by a bolt of lightning and toppled. Immediately, another tower rose from […]
Read more "Chapter 61: Through the Mirror of Light and Granting a Wish or Two"