Forbidden Confessions of a Dream Walker - Part 5: Years of Purpose

For a long time, life in the dream world settled into a kind of rhythm.

I would find myself drawn to people in need — usually those being tormented by demons, just as I once had been.
Sometimes I arrived alone, piecing together the situation slowly, like waking up halfway through a story.
Other times, fellow Dream Walkers appeared — friends I recognized, even if I couldn’t always remember how or when we had first met.

There were no maps. No formal orders.
We acted because we knew we had to.
When the darkness gathered, we were drawn to it like sparks to dry tinder.

Sometimes the Angels gave me missions directly — appearing in dreams, cloaked in brilliant light, teaching me how to protect those I found.
Other times, the dream world itself seemed to pull me toward trouble.

The work was simple in principle, if not in practice:
Find the demon.
Resist its fear.
Command it to leave.

Demons have no real power of their own.
They feed off the power we give them — off fear, weakness, hatred.
If you stand firm, if you invoke God or Christ, you can banish them with little more than a word or a gesture.

I saw things during those years that most people could never imagine.
I fought creatures twisted and furious.
I stood alongside dogs and humans alike, battling to free the lost and the broken.

And sometimes... sometimes I was granted glimpses of deeper truths.
The Angels didn’t just send me to fight.
They also taught me — strange, holy things about existence itself.
Once, they showed me a vision of the Garden of Eden: a place of pure, luminous white, a silent mist, a path leading toward vibrant, living forests.
A beginning before beginnings.

They gave me pieces of a puzzle, but never the whole picture.
There were always things they held back.
Secrets I wasn’t ready — or maybe not allowed — to understand.

Still, for a time, I belonged to something greater than myself.
I fought for those who couldn’t fight for themselves.
I had purpose.
I had a place.

And then, one day, it all ended.

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