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you. Wield that power; use your energy.”
    I push back as I have always done in this nightmare. I am praying to God under my breath.
    “Create a shield of white light around you, Jes. Imagine a white powerful light surrounding you.”
    I focus my entire mind on drawing this shield around myself. I feel this force of light reverberating off of me, molding around me. I sweep my arms to the right, then the left. The dark shifts away at my every move. I head up the stairs slowly.
    It’s working. The pull isn’t as strong now. I am breaking its hold on me.
    In an instant, I am in my parents’ room.
    The terrible scene. My mother convulsing on the ground, struggling to remain herself. My father praying over her, tears and anguish on his face.
    “Encircle your parents within your shield. Surround the three of you.”
    I whisper, “I don’t think I can.” I feel like I am sinking against the door.
    The voice is at my ear now and more forceful than before. “Yes, you can. You have the strength. Now do it!”
    I shiver at the sternness of the voice and the lingering feeling of the warm breath on my ear. I close my eyes, walk toward my parents, and focus on spreading the energy from within myself around my mother, father, and I.
    All of a sudden, the chaos becomes silent. My eyes shoot open, fearful that I have done something very wrong. My parents are looking at me, faces contorting into terrible, monster-like beings. Their eyes are jet black with no whites to them; they don’t look human. Their expressions are full of hate, anger, and a yearning to attack me. I am their prey. My heart and stomach begin to twist and burn with fear. I feel my focus slipping.
    The voice comes again. “Don’t, Jes. Don’t let your energy slip away. You need to save them. The dark entity is pulling at your fear. Take it on.”
    I lean in to my mom first. She looks like she is going to attack me, but I don’t back down. I close my eyes.
    Dear God, save me.
    I feel the white-hot energy spill from me onto her. I grab hold of my father by his shoulder. I press them both against me. My shield is encircling us. I open my eyes and see my mom’s face as her own.
    Her eyes are filled with tears. She mouths to me, “You did it, Jes.”
    My father’s holding on to my mother and me.
    He says, “We’re safe. You are safe, Jes.”
    The powerful shelter I created is still radiating from us. I can feel that the dark presence is still pushing against me.
    Why is it not backing off?
    The voice responds to my thought. “It is waiting for our weakness to show. Any sign of it and it will attack again. Your energy is still strong. Now imagine yourself turning up the energy slowly, building it inside you until you feel like you need to let it burst from within you.”
    I whisper, “How the heck do I do that?”
    “Your mind, Jes, can do so much more than you are aware of. Just do as I am telling you. Your mind will know what to do.”
    I shut my eyes and feel heat bouncing from me to my parents.
    That must be the energy radiating from me.
    I breathe in, imagining I am taking in the energy around me from everything, the earth, all of it.
    The voice confirms my actions. “Yes, that is it. You’ve got it.”
    I feel the air around me. It feels intensely electrified. The warmth of the energy is pure, electrifying energy. I open my eyes to see what effect it is having around me. The energy is a pulsating wave moving around us in time with my racing pulse. Every pulse I feel a wave of pure energy roll around me, my parents, and the darkness. My pulse quickens out of fear of what is happening.
    I’m doing this?
    The energy synchronizes with my pulse instantly. I quicken my pulse with determination now.
    I’m doing this!
    The energy waves roll over the room in a consistent hypnotic flow; quicker and quicker until there is a silent flash every second: flash, flash, flash. The darkness falls back as the strength of my energy drowns it. I don’t move from my