last night i had a dream where i was on one of two spaceships on a mission for our dying planet one ship had the warriors and adventurers and my ship had the doctors and patients and tactical experts. I was a psychologist. we were all on our way to try and dispel myths about an abandoned planet that was covered in mist and the legend said that any man who went to that planet never returned and any woman who went would be turned into a demon cursed to kill forevermore
well this planet was in our newly acquired solar system so our king wanted it inhabited since we were still having overpopulation issues and long story short we got to the planet covered in mist and when we broke the atmosphere there were equal amounts of terror and awe because it turned out to be covered in these incredible twisting trees and lakes of mercury which i would need way more pages to describe to you and also because well a lot of people thought the mission was stupid and would get us killed
the warriors/adventurers took their ship down to the nearest clearing next to a mercury lake and waterfall, while my ship stayed in the air. It had been a fairly long journey and one person, a new recruit for the warriors, had gone half-mad on the way babbling (what we though was) nonsense about going to our dooms and being taken by 'the kiss of the shimmering mist'. as the psychologist I was in charge of keeping him away and keeping the peace during the trip. About half an hour after the other ship had landed, leaving us what we thought was safely up in the sky above the treeline, my patient started screaming.
after trying to calm him down for about ten minutes, i was about to sedate him when i realized he wasn't the only one screaming anymore.
i snuck out into the hallway with my lightly sedated patient in tow and i saw this shimmering woman with jewl-toned wings that changed colour and pattern with her hair and eyes, and she was humming something that had all of the men in the main hall first entranced while the women were screaming as they were swept up and some of them torn limb from limb and the more beautiful ones were swept away by more of the creatures and they too were...i don't know hypnotized or something into killing the men with their bare hands or whatever they could grab, and then were taken away by the winged women.
horrified i wasn't sure what to do, and for the rest of the dream i was guiding my patient towards the escape pods until i realized he seemed to somehow know what was around the corner and how to avoid the winged women, and i let him help guide me.
I think his name must have been Andy because he had just been in a fight with a winged woman trying to save me when I woke up and I guess was yelling for him
and that my friends is the story of how my parents came running in and now think im completely off my rocker because for a minute there i thought i was still in my dream and i guess was babbling about winged women and that I was a psychiatrist licensed by the king and needed to save my patient.