The Nomad Chronicles

Angel is battling me in a forest. She is slinging all her black tentacles at me. I easily block and dodge all her attacks. She's relentless. I turn on my energy shield, and bounce her attacks off of it. She gets angry and attacks harder. I electrify the shield. ZAP!

OW! WHY DID YOU DO THAT?

Self-defense.

YOU HURT- M-

She tries to punch me in the face mid-sentence, trying to use speech to distract me. I grab her wrist, and throw her to the ground.

HOW COULD YOU HIT ME? I AM A WOMAN!

I see Selene sitting in a stone chair watching serenely.

Angel looks to Selene for help. "O, Moon Goddess, I devote myself to you again!" Selene points to me.

I morph into Tezcatlipoca, the Jaguar God, with thorny vines growing out of me, and bones like hardwood trees. I leap at Angel, tackling her. I open a portal with my third eye midair. I stop myself, and let her keep going. She teleports behind me before she gets to the portal, and shoves a gun in the back of my head. I laugh, moving my face to the back of my head, and biting her gun, crushing it. She lets go of the gun with a shriek and cries for mommy.

I summon two hemispheres, and I put her in a white orb. She cries about being claustraphobic. I open a portal and boot her into it. The portal closes. I make it so the ball vanishes as soon as he gets through. She keeps talking to me telepathically.

GET OUT OF MY DREAMS. LEAVE ME ALONE. YOU NEVER WANTED TO BE HERE ANYWAY. At least that's what your waking self said. SO FUCK IT. NO. STOP SUCKING ON MY ENERGY, YOU VAMPIRE.

I summon blades to come out of my forearms, and cut the cords between us, astral and dream. I feel my astral body doing it, lagging half a second behind.

NO. MORE. CONTROL.

Suddenly, all the drama between Angel and I is a 2D square in a white void. It shrinks down to a point, then explodes turning into a black hole, then a sun, then a galaxy, then a universe, then it turns into a single point, then is nothing.

Selene and I are alone in the void.

"She was so much like you... So much, Selene. It was so mystical. She even wears the moonstone. I don't understand."

"Nomad, she is a twinner of me. She is the closest twinner on your planet in your Wakeworld to me. But, we are separate entities. Her Dream Self and I are nearly identical twins, dopplegangers. But, her waking life personality is much different in some ways. She stifles herself by not lucid dreaming, but that is her choice. She made a choice a long time ago, and she suffers. She can change her mind any time she wishes. But, she won't, at least, probably not this lifetime.
I merged with her to be with you. And, it felt natural, for both of us. But, she didn't approve of my unconditional love for you. She argued with me often, saying that love must be conditional in order to get someone to love you unconditionally. I could not get her to open her eyes to the insanity of that statement. When she told me that is when I demerged from her.

She says she feels there is a hole in her heart. It's not you that she's missing.

It's me.

I will always be here. I will always be your wife. We have already been married fifty years on the dream plane, but you don't perceive it. See, the Delta Sleep Self lives serially from night to night, 300 to five hundred years on the dream plane for one waking life lifetime.

I expect you to seek out lovers in your other existences, and even this one. I understand how dreams work. I know."