Strange Dreams VI. Arbor Exemplar

Your sleep slowly fades
 Your body cold with a biting wind that cuts through you
 Not wind, but chilling current
 You open your eyes and see nothing but shadow
 And your arms move sluggishly
 Against the familiar icy waters
 That portent the prying will of your patron
 Your heart rate begins to race and jump
 Knowing what this brings
 And as that fear wells up into your throat
 You hear the familiar voice call from the darkness
 Return
 The orb that remains embedded within your body
 Shines through the skin like a dull lantern
 You look up from your chest
 To see the gargantuan lid of the familiar
 Spotlight-like yellow eye
 You try and look to the right or left
 But you are locked in on this singular slitted pupil
 You're unable to turn away
 The panic begins to build and the voice says
 Release
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 This heavy resonant tearing sound
 Begins to fill the space around you
 As tendrils begin to emerge
 From the pupil of the giant eye
 Snaking vines pushing through it
 Pulling the eye apart from the center
 An emerald light pouring through the gaping hole
 Warming the waters around you
 A slew of emotions fill your mind
 Warm, amorphous, but comforting
 And evoking ideas that become words
 Come with me, child