Natives & the Vampire Guy - DILD within a Dream -
I'm in a small, run-down house in which many people are living. We're learning traditional native ways. Well, I'm not learning, I'm just sort of there. I don't belong there. We're all shown to our rooms. I have to share a bed with a teen guy. We lay in the dark talking. He tells me it's very important to learn traditional things and that his people are basically an endangered species. As we are talking I drift to sleep.
~I'm walking down a road that slices through a flat, green expanse of land. The sky is an overwhelming blue, not a cloud speckles it. Seems like I'm walking through a painting. I continue to walk until I come to plants that line the road. They are massive four leafed clovers, taller than me. They are also a deep maroon colour.
I laugh.
"I'm dreaming"
I continue walking down the middle of the clover lined road. I try to recall a lucid challenge. Did they have something to do with snow? I can't remember.
I look back to the scenery. On either side of me the flat fields have turned to massive hills of snow. I charge up one of the mountainous hills. It's taking too long. I wonder if I can slide up a snow hill? I leap into the air and land on my belly, arms stretched out before me. I start sliding up the snowhill and it's actually more fun than sliding down. I quickly reach the top and start down the other side. I'm up and down a good half dozen hills before I decide to change the scene.
I stop and stand up, look at the scenery. Snow hills stretch to the horizon on all sides of me. I take a few moments and appreciate the simplistic beauty of this scene before I fall backwards off the hill. I close my eyes, willing the scene to change. ~
(end lucidity)
I land on my back. I'm on a soft surface, like a mattress. I sit up and look around me. I'm back in the crowded native house. The teen is still on the bed mumbling away.
Lights flash through our window. Someone is approaching. I sense danger. I try to get out of bed but my body is slow and sluggish. I can barely stand. I stumble around like I'm wasted. I try to tell the boy to hide but my words won't form.
A tall, thin man appears. He is dressed in black. He smiles at me. He has fangs and looks like a vampire but I don't think he's really a vampire. He's something else. The guy leans over the teen boy and informs the boy that he will soon come and take possession of his body. The boy is too afraid to even blink or breathe. I struggle to move but my body is not working. I know I could kick that guy's ass if I could only move.
The tall man only grins at me in a way that infuriates me. It's as if he is the one responsible for my partial paralysis. He nods and bows gallantly before disappearing.
The boy is still too afraid to move. I hear voices. The voices outside the room snap me out of the paralysis. I run to the boy and tell him that we will run away and hide from the tall man. I promise to protect him but the boy says he can not leave. He has an obligation to stay where he is. He begins speaking in a language that sounds vaguely like Spanish. I can't understand him anymore. People burst into the room and check on us. I can't understand them either. I stay near to the boy though. I know it's up to me to protect him.
