... were it not that I have bad dreams

[youandyoualone]

Since we returned to Harrogate, some seven Jaunts ago, I have upon occasion been subject to disquieting nightmares of possible futures--as I believe some others of us have as well. I had another such dream this last night.

In this dream, I stood watching a black river slowly ice over and I knew, I knew that when the ice stretched from bank to bank, the palpable sense of wrongness I felt at the advent of the ice would become irreversible. There were shapes frozen under that ice and those who surrounded me had forked tongues; they were hissing threats at one another. When I tried to warn them of the ice, they turned away.

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[failgoyle]

But have you been eating anything else weird? Or anything right before bed?

[youandyoualone]

I know better than to.

[failgoyle]

You are making it really hard to grasp at straws of hope, you know that, right?

[youandyoualone]

Mayhap. But I would rather be--what do you future people call it?--ah, a downer than let people venture unknowingly into ruin.

[failgoyle]

Okay, fair enough, but this is really terrifying and some of us need to cope!

[youandyoualone]

... I do not know if pretending things are less dismaying than they seem is a better or worse technique than screaming.

[failgoyle]

It's quieter.

[youandyoualone]

There is that to recommend it.