#lavender---dragon

Note before reading (just in case): The dream involves a character saying, with urgency, to remember a specific date in the future. This is just another part of the dream, but if this is something that may upset you to read, please do not continue!

I was in a huge room on an island, viewing a play. Time period seemed to be about late 1700s or early 1800s. They all seemed to dress as expected of the time, except for Zero, who had short pinkish-blond hair, wide eyes, and pale skin that looked like it had never seen daylight. She was wearing old, torn jeans and a light blue t-shirt. I walked towards her, and asked something. Her wide eyes grew even wider, and she spoke of something happening in 2028. I wanted to inquire more, but then the theater burst into flame. I ran out with Zero.

The last thing she said was “This is a dream. You have to remember. 2028.” And then she calmly walked towards the fires erupting all around and disappeared into the flames. Some boats were fleeing the island, I tried to grab a boat, but as the man on it noticed he became angered and pushed me off into the water.

There was a huge machine with forked claws scooping up the bodies in the water, doubtlessly assuming they were all long dead. I wasn’t though. I braced myself for impact, hoping that because it was a dream it wouldn’t hurt as much.

She came to me in a dream when I was little that I still remember sharp as the blinding white void I woke up in.

There was a huge grey building with no windows and a single door in the distance. It all looked kind of like a shoddy video game render. Seeing as that was the only place in sight, I walked towards it, terrified as I was. I hated being alone.

I opened the door, and it was colorless inside, except for a bunch of people at sewing machines lined up in rows, who looked just like how I described Lacey earlier, though they had different lengths of hair. I’m assuming it’s because they all wore different wigs, although they were all green. There was also a beautiful garden in the center of the room, blocked off with glass walls.

I felt relieved, now that I found other people… even if they had no faces and all seemed unaware of my presence. I went around and asked each one of them for help, and my dread grew again as nobody even noticed me.

Except for one of them.

“I don’t know how I got here and I don’t know where home is and nobody’s listening. Please help. Please.” I said through tears for what was probably the fifteenth time.

And to my surprise, she responded. “Oh. Is that so? Sorry. Most of the others can’t break away. I promise you’ll be alright. My name is Lacey. What is yours?” I was too grateful for anyone to be responding at all to care about how she talked without having a mouth.

“I’m Lavender” I said, wiping tears away from my face. “I want to go home.”

She stood up, revealing her full height. I’d guess she was about seven feet tall, but I didn’t feel intimidated nevertheless. How could I? “I’ve been in this building all my life, sewing. Nobody has left, and nobody has entered, before you, that is. I don’t even know where the clothes end up. I don’t think any of the others can talk, and I’ve always been too trapped in a haze to try to leave. You seem to have snapped me out. This is not a home for me either. Would you like to try to find home together?”

I nodded. We walked out the door, back into the white void. “Where are we going?” I asked her, getting nervous when she hesitated to respond.

“Little one, I know what’s happening now. This place isn’t real. You’re simply dreaming.” She sat down on the plastic-like ground, and I did as well.

“I don’t want you to go.” We only just met, but her presence was comforting. I trusted her already, and she was just a dream?

“Don’t worry. This world isn’t real, but I will still be if you can remember me when you wake up. If you do that, we’ll both be home, and I won’t leave you.”

“I’ll try my best.” I said, struggling not to wake up now that I knew I was dreaming.

“Here.” As everything faded away she handed me a pink bow and I clasped it tightly in my hands.

“I promise I won’t forget you!”