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Author:Spirit Bound
Format: epub

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EVA

Eva sat in a small classroom with the last 13—Gabriella, Xavier, Zara, Rapha, Maria, Cody and Arianna.

“Usually the Dreamer Doors competition has teams of three students from each of the four Academies, competing in the previous champion’s dream to find a prize,” Lora said. “This year will be different—your team, under the guise of the competition, will use the constructed Dreamscape to try to find the Gears that have fallen into the wrong hands.”

“How do we do that?” Xavier asked.

“The Dreamscape that is created will feel like ordinary, waking life, and you will all share in it. The very nature of the constructed dream will assist you in your search for the Gears. Having those connected minds all together in there will magnify your dream waves and hopefully draw you to the Gears in a way you would struggle to do in real life.”

“Sounds good!” Rapha said.

“So it’ll feel like we’re in another reality?” Eva said.

“Yes. You’ll be aware it’s a dream, but it will feel completely real,” Lora said, “like the lucid dreams that you have been having in my classes. There is one important extra element, though.”

Lora brought up a digital image onto the screen at the front of the classroom.

“These doors are scattered throughout the construct world,” she explained, pointing to the images of a white door and a black door at different locations. “The white doors will take you where you want to go.”

“Whoa, hang on …” Xavier said. “Anywhere?”

“Almost, although you must have your destination clear in your mind. But for argument’s sake, if you need to get from this door to say, a door nearest the Opera House in Sydney, then you picture it in your mind as you open the door and go through.”

“And if we don’t have a clear mental picture?” Eva said. “Or if we just run through without an idea?”

“Then you will end up at any one of the thousands of doors around the world,” Lora said. “And the disorientation may cause you to go back through the door, only to find yourself at another location, and so on. So it’s of the utmost importance to be focused and calm when using the white doors.”

“What about the black doors?” Gabriella asked.

Lora nodded and zoomed in on the picture of the black door. “They number less, about five thousand all up, scattered around the world,” she said. “Again, you must concentrate, but they do one of two things.”

Eva sat on the edge of her chair, waiting.

“First, they can bring you back to your waking life, and you will be out of the competition. For instance, if you manage to find the location of a Gear, you can use a black door to immediately come out of the construct. And if, for whatever reason, you feel you can go no further in the game, you can come back, there is no harm in that.”

“How long does each tournament last?”

“Until the Dreamer prize is found and brought back through a black door,” Lora

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