Technically this could be a known Harry
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beccaelizabethbut with none of his known associates:
I dreamed there was a resistance leader hiding out in a boarding school, making sure the students all had up to grade ten before they graduated.
They had to have grade two before they left the little school, basics of not doing magic and a bunch of theoretical knowledge, maybe a cantrip.
The schools, junior and senior, had been very neglected before he moved in, but he brought with him a dozen top class ... teachers.
The school obviously could do math and knew who travelled in sets of thirteen, but they also knew where their kids would be sent, sooner or later. The training was worth the political stress.
Plus with the team split between two genders and three main buildings, there was only so much else they could get up to, right? Under such close supervision they'd just be teaching.
And rumours about there being tieflings among them couldnt be true, everyone knew tieflings were monsters, not polite pretty girls.
(News items read over the speakers each day included warnings about tiefling activity and, at least once a year, something ominous about tiefling breeders, corrupting the good men around them. One got the feeling that good girls did what their government told them to, and who.)
So then they were hiding and sneaky. There was a standardised and censored news letter that the students had to write, all triple checked of course. But the censor hadnt caught on that if you cut up the pages a certain way you got political dynamite out of the overlaps.
Until the dream action, of course.
Someone told a trusted adult because it was particularly funny this week, and then things started going poorly. Too many adults talking to each other, ones that were willing to be seen in groups. Word sent out.
So this possible Harry and his team, they started getting ready to move. Reached out on their whispers. But when someone turned up to fetch them, it wasn't quite what they expected.
They still packed, ready to go. Still set a meeting point.
And still got intercepted by the kids on the way there.
Cue big stirring speech, kind of like 'stay in school' and kind of like 'learn everything they're willing to give you, as much more as you can, and then kick all their arses with it.'
... it was a better speech in dream, in a more formal register, but the words flew away.
ANYway, the kids went back in, academic enthusiasm renewed, and the ... team went to the transport zone.
Most of them.
Seven turned up straight away, plus the messenger. So those eight, and Harry, started going around the rooms of the other five, to say goodbye. But they found their people packed ready, just in varying states of willing and able. Mostly terrified. Sitting in the dark, trying to just get up and go the last distance.
Harry didnt make that assumption, just hugged them and wished them well.
But they hugged him back, hugged whoever else they were with, and however their friends tried to persuade them, chose to keep going with him.
Then there were only the ladies left, the ones automatically assigned to the junior school.
They weren't in rooms the gents could stroll up to, so Harry sent them on ahead and went to the tunnel to check who was already over.
And that was when he got caught.
Big scene, big moment, for the guy chasing him. ... heavyset older man with abundant yet unkempt pewter hair, dream didnt tell me the background, just this one chase was the man's whole professional life. He'd been close before but finally, finally, he'd caught the man himself, and alone! ... cue a little bit of gloating. He's caught, he'll be tried, and he will finally be sent...
... to the front? Harry grins a very unpleasant grin. Where does he think they're all going?
So he can have his trial, yes, but with his people already in the room only the recruiter gets them out of, the real choice here is, do they go to the front? Or do they go to the front disarmed, stripped of their magic, and crippled?
Why now? The messenger who turned up has a blank cheque kind of a favor from him, life long, and he's calling it in.
So they're going to the front, and no one's come back from that, not for a very long time.
... the man walks them to the recruitment room, but he lets them go in.
In the waiting room the women cluster around the friends and family side. When this stranger arrives they cluster a bit more compactly, hiding one bench. Bit of bad timing is going on right there. To draw the eye away, the men make a move off, including one Strider looking guy who looks back most intensely. But no one in authority notices anything.
Which is good, because the girl giving birth can't hide her colors any more, and her hair, all sweaty, can't hide the horns.
... no one goes in the recruitment room willingly, the waiting room is almost always going to be empty, and both schools can get to it. Perfect meeting place, usually.
Besides, the young woman they're hiding arrived with Harry. She's packed to leave, she's just having a biologically inconvenient moment.
But the Healer gets there right after Harry, a Healer who has been working as a junior school nurse, but now she's here? 18 seconds flat, baby arrives, baby Healed, mother Healed.
And the crowd are all ready to bustle the baby away. Mother just has time to whisper "Aragorn. Or Arwen, I haven't even checked..."
"Aragorn," the women whisper back, already leaving.
But when they go, there's still a bunch of bags and trunks there, and both Healer and new mother start picking them up, heading for the recruitment room.
Harry is past surprised to see them. Thought they'd be staying.
The new mother whispers to him, she's the tiefling breeder they're all warned about. She has seven kids. And they're all in school, where they need to be, but the longer she stays, the closer...
... well, she just nods sodeways, to where the potential arresting officer is making very sure they leave by the recruiter's teleport circle, and no other way.
Which they did.
Which was when I woke up, and so I don't know anything useful about the setting. What kind of repressive all censoring government? Why were tieflings suddenly deemed a problem? Were they new? What kind of front was it?? Who were they even meant to be fighting???
So I reckon it was something like the worldwound, only lawful evil, and secretly the devils were running both sides of the war. Making sure the human supply doesn't run out with all that arranged stuff. More souls for the faith... or the feeding on.
It just felt very dramatic for the bit I saw but also like I joined a new tv show in the middle. Layers of context that dont bother explaining themselves. Which my brain of course turns into typing it up as soon as wake up, in case I figure it out.
Don't reckon I did tho.
I dreamed there was a resistance leader hiding out in a boarding school, making sure the students all had up to grade ten before they graduated.
They had to have grade two before they left the little school, basics of not doing magic and a bunch of theoretical knowledge, maybe a cantrip.
The schools, junior and senior, had been very neglected before he moved in, but he brought with him a dozen top class ... teachers.
The school obviously could do math and knew who travelled in sets of thirteen, but they also knew where their kids would be sent, sooner or later. The training was worth the political stress.
Plus with the team split between two genders and three main buildings, there was only so much else they could get up to, right? Under such close supervision they'd just be teaching.
And rumours about there being tieflings among them couldnt be true, everyone knew tieflings were monsters, not polite pretty girls.
(News items read over the speakers each day included warnings about tiefling activity and, at least once a year, something ominous about tiefling breeders, corrupting the good men around them. One got the feeling that good girls did what their government told them to, and who.)
So then they were hiding and sneaky. There was a standardised and censored news letter that the students had to write, all triple checked of course. But the censor hadnt caught on that if you cut up the pages a certain way you got political dynamite out of the overlaps.
Until the dream action, of course.
Someone told a trusted adult because it was particularly funny this week, and then things started going poorly. Too many adults talking to each other, ones that were willing to be seen in groups. Word sent out.
So this possible Harry and his team, they started getting ready to move. Reached out on their whispers. But when someone turned up to fetch them, it wasn't quite what they expected.
They still packed, ready to go. Still set a meeting point.
And still got intercepted by the kids on the way there.
Cue big stirring speech, kind of like 'stay in school' and kind of like 'learn everything they're willing to give you, as much more as you can, and then kick all their arses with it.'
... it was a better speech in dream, in a more formal register, but the words flew away.
ANYway, the kids went back in, academic enthusiasm renewed, and the ... team went to the transport zone.
Most of them.
Seven turned up straight away, plus the messenger. So those eight, and Harry, started going around the rooms of the other five, to say goodbye. But they found their people packed ready, just in varying states of willing and able. Mostly terrified. Sitting in the dark, trying to just get up and go the last distance.
Harry didnt make that assumption, just hugged them and wished them well.
But they hugged him back, hugged whoever else they were with, and however their friends tried to persuade them, chose to keep going with him.
Then there were only the ladies left, the ones automatically assigned to the junior school.
They weren't in rooms the gents could stroll up to, so Harry sent them on ahead and went to the tunnel to check who was already over.
And that was when he got caught.
Big scene, big moment, for the guy chasing him. ... heavyset older man with abundant yet unkempt pewter hair, dream didnt tell me the background, just this one chase was the man's whole professional life. He'd been close before but finally, finally, he'd caught the man himself, and alone! ... cue a little bit of gloating. He's caught, he'll be tried, and he will finally be sent...
... to the front? Harry grins a very unpleasant grin. Where does he think they're all going?
So he can have his trial, yes, but with his people already in the room only the recruiter gets them out of, the real choice here is, do they go to the front? Or do they go to the front disarmed, stripped of their magic, and crippled?
Why now? The messenger who turned up has a blank cheque kind of a favor from him, life long, and he's calling it in.
So they're going to the front, and no one's come back from that, not for a very long time.
... the man walks them to the recruitment room, but he lets them go in.
In the waiting room the women cluster around the friends and family side. When this stranger arrives they cluster a bit more compactly, hiding one bench. Bit of bad timing is going on right there. To draw the eye away, the men make a move off, including one Strider looking guy who looks back most intensely. But no one in authority notices anything.
Which is good, because the girl giving birth can't hide her colors any more, and her hair, all sweaty, can't hide the horns.
... no one goes in the recruitment room willingly, the waiting room is almost always going to be empty, and both schools can get to it. Perfect meeting place, usually.
Besides, the young woman they're hiding arrived with Harry. She's packed to leave, she's just having a biologically inconvenient moment.
But the Healer gets there right after Harry, a Healer who has been working as a junior school nurse, but now she's here? 18 seconds flat, baby arrives, baby Healed, mother Healed.
And the crowd are all ready to bustle the baby away. Mother just has time to whisper "Aragorn. Or Arwen, I haven't even checked..."
"Aragorn," the women whisper back, already leaving.
But when they go, there's still a bunch of bags and trunks there, and both Healer and new mother start picking them up, heading for the recruitment room.
Harry is past surprised to see them. Thought they'd be staying.
The new mother whispers to him, she's the tiefling breeder they're all warned about. She has seven kids. And they're all in school, where they need to be, but the longer she stays, the closer...
... well, she just nods sodeways, to where the potential arresting officer is making very sure they leave by the recruiter's teleport circle, and no other way.
Which they did.
Which was when I woke up, and so I don't know anything useful about the setting. What kind of repressive all censoring government? Why were tieflings suddenly deemed a problem? Were they new? What kind of front was it?? Who were they even meant to be fighting???
So I reckon it was something like the worldwound, only lawful evil, and secretly the devils were running both sides of the war. Making sure the human supply doesn't run out with all that arranged stuff. More souls for the faith... or the feeding on.
It just felt very dramatic for the bit I saw but also like I joined a new tv show in the middle. Layers of context that dont bother explaining themselves. Which my brain of course turns into typing it up as soon as wake up, in case I figure it out.
Don't reckon I did tho.