nice dreams, less of them pls?
Jan. 16th, 2009 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI dreamed about Uther Pendragon, magically preserved. He'd been tomcatting his way through history being a petty tyrant and gathering his own little kingdom into a constantly modernised castle.
I was hired to help look after his teenage son's mother. She weren't looking so good for her age, looked about twice as old as she was, and that seemed like a hint for how Uther stayed so well preserved.
The son was acting up cranky. He was getting to the age where he was either going to get thrown out or come down with a mysterious malady of the mind. He was trying to choose thrown out, but he couldnt get past the castle defenses. Most recently I'd found him standing on the tallest tower, naked, in the snow, going blue all over but unable to move either forward or back. He looked like a particularly fine sculpture, like he'd be frozen solid. But I picked him up and wrapped him up and got him back inside. Then another layer of castle defenses popped up, a Really Big Snake. Huge and white with blue eyes, with a hood like a cobra. Biiiiiig snake. Only the head bit fit in the room, the tail went all the way to the ground floor. It was a bit worrying for a minute, but then it decided it likes me and picked us both up and took us back to the warm rooms the quick way, straight down, whoosh.
That bit was just a bit scary.
Then the boy was frostbit all over, looked like one big bruise. He'd survive, his mother would look after him, but he weren't going anywhere for a while.
I was working in the castle to look for my brother, the daft one. He was being kept in a specialist wing, a bit like a special school, with lots of other boys who also needed looking after. He was someone's best friend there. I decided he was being better looked after than government benefits would ever provide for and left him to it. Even if many of the other boys were in the 'strange malady of the mind' category, that wouldn't bother my brother. Bothered me though, so I stayed around to look into it.
Also because it was really very difficult to leave once hired.
So then Rupert Giles came looking for me. He got himself hired as a librarian. And then of course he looked exactly like Uther.
The dream ended up with the both of them naked and covered in bath bubbles, standing next to a jacuzzi on one of the roof levels, with Uther demanding Rupert be arrested and executed. Uther was sounding a bit bored about this, and Rupert was a bit rabbit in the headlights. They were both so soapy slippery that they couldn't hardly move, much less run away. They ended up all tangled up with each other just to stay upright. So the security guards arrived and grabbed them.
And pulled Uther's head off.
He demanded what was the meaning of this, acted up cranky, had his body make threatening albeit really ineffectual gestures.
Rupert was standing around looking steadily less soapy and more naked, and also very puzzled.
Turned out to be a sort of bloodless palace coup. Uther had pissed off absolutely everybody who'd ever worked with him, and they decided swapping him for the new guy was a far better idea. Even if the new guy turned out to be a bastard too he'd only be around for 50 years. They'd keep Uther parts locked in different boxes, and stick his head on a shelf somewhere Rupert could consult him about the day to day business. Uther was convinced this would never work because all the defences, like the really big snakes, were keyed to him. But it turns out that a thousand years of sending your descendants into the wilds can turn into someone who not only looks like you but has the same blood, so as far as the big snake was concerned, Rupert was the boss. There being two of the boss didn't bother the mystical defenses. And the second boss, of course, had magic, which was going to be immensely helpful, even if it did mortally offend Uther.
I woke up about the time Rupert was being very happy to see me :-)
... of course that means I was asleep again. I woke up this morning, it just didn't stick. Very unhelpful.
I was hired to help look after his teenage son's mother. She weren't looking so good for her age, looked about twice as old as she was, and that seemed like a hint for how Uther stayed so well preserved.
The son was acting up cranky. He was getting to the age where he was either going to get thrown out or come down with a mysterious malady of the mind. He was trying to choose thrown out, but he couldnt get past the castle defenses. Most recently I'd found him standing on the tallest tower, naked, in the snow, going blue all over but unable to move either forward or back. He looked like a particularly fine sculpture, like he'd be frozen solid. But I picked him up and wrapped him up and got him back inside. Then another layer of castle defenses popped up, a Really Big Snake. Huge and white with blue eyes, with a hood like a cobra. Biiiiiig snake. Only the head bit fit in the room, the tail went all the way to the ground floor. It was a bit worrying for a minute, but then it decided it likes me and picked us both up and took us back to the warm rooms the quick way, straight down, whoosh.
That bit was just a bit scary.
Then the boy was frostbit all over, looked like one big bruise. He'd survive, his mother would look after him, but he weren't going anywhere for a while.
I was working in the castle to look for my brother, the daft one. He was being kept in a specialist wing, a bit like a special school, with lots of other boys who also needed looking after. He was someone's best friend there. I decided he was being better looked after than government benefits would ever provide for and left him to it. Even if many of the other boys were in the 'strange malady of the mind' category, that wouldn't bother my brother. Bothered me though, so I stayed around to look into it.
Also because it was really very difficult to leave once hired.
So then Rupert Giles came looking for me. He got himself hired as a librarian. And then of course he looked exactly like Uther.
The dream ended up with the both of them naked and covered in bath bubbles, standing next to a jacuzzi on one of the roof levels, with Uther demanding Rupert be arrested and executed. Uther was sounding a bit bored about this, and Rupert was a bit rabbit in the headlights. They were both so soapy slippery that they couldn't hardly move, much less run away. They ended up all tangled up with each other just to stay upright. So the security guards arrived and grabbed them.
And pulled Uther's head off.
He demanded what was the meaning of this, acted up cranky, had his body make threatening albeit really ineffectual gestures.
Rupert was standing around looking steadily less soapy and more naked, and also very puzzled.
Turned out to be a sort of bloodless palace coup. Uther had pissed off absolutely everybody who'd ever worked with him, and they decided swapping him for the new guy was a far better idea. Even if the new guy turned out to be a bastard too he'd only be around for 50 years. They'd keep Uther parts locked in different boxes, and stick his head on a shelf somewhere Rupert could consult him about the day to day business. Uther was convinced this would never work because all the defences, like the really big snakes, were keyed to him. But it turns out that a thousand years of sending your descendants into the wilds can turn into someone who not only looks like you but has the same blood, so as far as the big snake was concerned, Rupert was the boss. There being two of the boss didn't bother the mystical defenses. And the second boss, of course, had magic, which was going to be immensely helpful, even if it did mortally offend Uther.
I woke up about the time Rupert was being very happy to see me :-)
... of course that means I was asleep again. I woke up this morning, it just didn't stick. Very unhelpful.