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nodded, and then yawned again. “Yes,” she
said in the middle of another yawn. “But, if you don’t mind, I’m just going to
close my eyes. I just can’t seem to keep them open.”
    “Challenge accepted,” he murmured, softly stroking her back
as he continued to trail kisses along her jawbone and whispered in her ear.
“You are so beautiful. Your skin is so soft and silky. I love to run my hands
along your …”
    He stopped kissing her, sat up a little in the bed and
looked down on his wife.   Her eyes were
closed. Her mouth was slightly open, and she was breathing rhythmically and
snoring softly.   “Challenge lost,” he
chuckled softly, placing a soft kiss on her forehead. He layed back on his pillow, pulled her gently into his arms
and held her. “Okay, Mary, go on your dream journey and I’ll take care of
things here,” he whispered.
    She smiled in her sleep and snuggled a little closer to him.
    Mary looked all around
the old building she was walking through.   She was surprised she could think analytically in her sleep. “Okay,
let’s test some things out,” she thought.
    She walked up to one
of the doors in the hall and placed her hand on the old, crystal doorknob and
tried to turn it.   But the doorknob
didn’t budge.   She clasped the doorknob
tighter, but all she felt was her own hand. “Come on,” she urged and tried
again. She started to feel the facets of crystal in her palm, but the feeling
was quickly lost.
    “Okay, maybe this is
too advanced for me,” she decided and continued down the dark hallway.
    A dark shadow whisked
past her on her left side and she quickly turned towards it. “Wait,” she
called, breaking into a run.
    The shadow darted down
a corridor on the other side; she caught a glimpse of it from the corner of her
eye. Her heart leapt and she jumped around the other way. “Okay, calm down,”
she told herself, purposely taking deep, calming breaths. “You’re reacting, not
being in control.”
    Looking around, she
realized the corridor ahead of her looked familiar. “Are you the corridor of my
dreams?” she joked and chuckled to herself, calming her pounding heart even
further. Stepping forward, she noticed that her movements were slow and
lethargic. “What’s going on?” she asked as she tried to force her body to speed
up her movements. She concentrated on her movements, but it didn’t help. She
was moving like she was walking through a vat of molasses.
    “Okay, Gracie,” she
said aloud. “How am I supposed to deal with this?”
    “Girl, you are
overthinking things.”   Gracie’s voice
startled her, and Mary jumped when she found Gracie standing next to her.
    “How did you get
here?” Mary asked.
    “Didn’t I tell you? This
is your dream,” Gracie said shaking her head. “You’re in charge. You wanted me
to be here, so here I am.”
    “How cool is that?”
Mary said.
    “Yeah, but you better
not make me lose any of my sleep,” Gracie added, folding her arms across her
chest and raising her eyebrows slightly. “You know how I can be when I’m
cranky.”
    Mary grinned at her
friend. “I’ll get you back as soon as I can,” she said. “So, what am I doing
wrong?”
    “When you walk down
the street and you want to walk faster, what do you do?” Gracie asked.
    Mary shook her head.
“I’m sorry?” she asked.
    “Are you going to make
me repeat everything I ask?” her friend demanded.
    “No, just this part,”
Mary replied.
    “When you walk down
the street and you want to walk faster, what do you do?” she repeated.
    Mary thought about it
for a moment and then shrugged. “I don’t know. I just walk faster,” she said.
“I don’t really think about it.”
    Gracie smiled and
nodded slowly. “Exactly,” she said. “Good night, Mary.”
    “Wait! What?” Mary
called after Gracie’s disappearing form. “I don’t think I understand.”
    Staring at the spot
that used to be her friend, Mary shook her head and threw her hands up in