The Sphere of Dreams and Deviations

Judith's doctor had told her that she needed to get out of the city, to someplace where she wouldn't be disturbed for a long time.  Her therapist had thought that would help her nightmares go away and give her a chance to get away from the overwhelming had a house out in the middle of nowhere.  She had moved in for her two-month vacation of rest and solitude. The nightmares had really had a physical impact of the twenty-four-year-old.
Her face looked older that her age and her body had deteriorated horribly. Being alone certainly did help the nightmares, and they'd been going away steadily over the past month, but recently they had been replaced with intensely erotic dreams.  With one month to go out in the desert, Judith was fairly certain that even they'd be gone before she went back to work. Late one night, Judith was awakened from one of her more erotic dreams, looking out her window she saw was light being reflected off the sand.  Judith decided to go outside to see if she could find out what had made that light.  Leaving her cabin, she discovered a small glass orb sitting in sand, in a very small crater, which it had apparently made as it landed.
Judith bent down a little further and grabbed the orb and then slipped it into her pocket changing her life forever.