Dreams

I was a notorious pirate stealing gold and treasure from this flooding ship along with a friend of mine and Elisabeth Swan (from Pirates of the Caribbean). The interior kind of looked like an old Aztec temple, but also a ship (it was rather interesting) and everything was blue and dripping. We scrounged around and found what appeared to be an old treasure room, but the treasure was taken already. I looked around and found a skull, and after moving it revealed a horde of treasure. We grab what we can and make our way outside the ship. The ship was sunk into a large field that was surrounded by buildings. People noticed us exiting the ship and start to head towards us. We all make a break for it and get separated. I run down a long alley and end up at my house, which is also flooded. My friend shows up and we chat as we walk into the flooded garage to store our treasure.

So I’m with my father and we’re robbing this place blind. That’s what we do- we roam the countryside and cheat people out of their possessions. In this one place we’re robbing, we have to stay a little longer because the valuable exotic animals we’re looking at are hard to get to. I strike up a friendships with a number of people in the area.

In particular, I become friends with two little girls. These girls are bullied terribly by a third little girl. I’m rough and tumble, so I don’t see at all a problem with what a do to solve this issue. I hold the blade of a pair of scissors right up to this little girl’s back, look her straight in the eye, and say the most beautiful things to her. She is very terrified by this older stranger holding a blade to her and being all intense, so she leaves the other little girls alone. My friends are very happy- they did not see the blade; they though that I was ‘killing her with kindness’.

I have another friend, a special male friend that I have gotten to know. The time comes for my father and I to book it, we have been found out. My male friend wants explanations and all that. I need to get him away from me and get out of there. I grab his manuscripts for novels and run as fast as I kind, flinging the pages everywhere. I think that he will not be able to chase me, because these pages are very precious to him and he will have to stop and pick all of them up. Also, I think they’re really good and he ought to show them to someone. I hope that someone will read them and he’ll get discovered.

He catches up to me on a clifftop over a river. It turns out that he doesn’t care that I’m a no-good thief and so on. He gives me a gift and I know that he loves me. I have fallen behind my father. The man asks me, thinking that he knows the answer, if my father will be coming back to me. I am surprised that he would ask this; of course my father is not coming back to me. If one of us is left behind, then that person is left behind, end of story.

I ask him why my father would come back for me. He says because of love. In this moment I realize what love is like in his world and how warm and kind it is compared to the world that I live in. In this moment, I want so much to have a taste of that. The man tells me he loves me. I want that so badly; I didn’t know if I loved him, but I wanted to. We kiss.

The police show up and we break apart. I throw his gift over the cliff, both to put the police off the track and also because I needed it away from me. I run; I catch up with my father. He shows no sign of being pleased to see me. We’re running and I feel very tired of that life. I decide to hide instead. I hide and the police show up. The man had sent them on what he thought would be the wrong track- and it would have been too, if I had kept on running.

The policemen do not appear to see me. I wake up.

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