"Cursed child" - reminds me of the recurring troubled/mistreated youth theme...
"Dark lady" - could be a latent anxiety regarding what you could become at the end of this journey...

"naked/half-naked" - vulnerability, which could be more latent from the journey process (the fresh layers like we talked about before)

The gender-flipped could also source from- the horse character from the previous dream, since anima/animus is always the opposite gender traits.

-->What part of the dream created the fear reaction???