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Last night, I had a rather crazy dream.
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It began with me living the life of a peasant, in some small kingdom in some random country- I helped my family with day to day stuff, but as time went on I grew discontent with what went on around me. So discontent, in fact, that I attempted to find a way out of it. To become something more. And so, I left home to do just that. I searched the world, and made my way through crazy means until I eventually found a book detailing the journeys of a man who seemed to be in my exact set of mind, and detailed a power to move beyond the world he once knew. I followed the book's clues to find... Myself.
My own corpse laid at the site the book detailed, along with a stone where the heart of the remains should have been. Grabbing it, I realized immediately what I had gained and who I was- I was the incarnation of a being that was capable of shifting dimensions at will, and further could sense the general structure of each so as to fine-tune my hopping. The world become more vibrant, a surrealists take on infinity.
Naturally, I sought to use the power to get more powerful. My first stop was a dimension in which technology had progressed to a state of magical fluidity. While there, I drew on their knowledge to create myself an item that, basically, gave me the powers of superman (Plus being unable to age) without the drawbacks. It was bonded to me, and with it I skipped across dimensions randomly, languidly exploring and connecting with people on my way through.
Eventually, I met a woman while walking through the streets of a dimension that was a lot like 1920's Urban America. Her dark hair was held up always, and she had a softness to her that few people possess outside of their closest relationships. Despite seeing millions of people in hundreds of subjective forms of reality, she tapped something within me that was deep and unmistakable. I grew, in time, to know her and her place in the world- she seemed ever content to be with me, not knowing of who or what I did. It was peaceful for a time.
For reasons I didn't understand at the time, she was to attend a great ceremony in her honor that would be held on a beach by the ocean. She didn't speak much of it, but seemed happy over the event- I attended with her and sat among great people from across their nation. Once an initial speech was over, she rose from the table and walked to the ocean- she was no more than fifty feet away. The waves lapped at her sandaled feet, and the wind blew her dress about. Suddenly, from seemingly nowhere, an octopus of immense size erupted from the shoreline and consumed her. Utterly shocked by this, I was to learn rather quickly from the beast's speech that it was a worthy sacrifice, and it would not destroy their city this year.
I reacted in the only manner I knew how- I decimated the creature with a ferocity previously unknown to me, and razed the ceremony with gouts of flame. With burning hated, I scoured the land for all beasts of a terrible sort and removed them from their stations. Nothing escaped my grasp.
And yet, it did little to quell the feelings I had. Surely, in some other dimension, there was another such as her. With that, I began to seek her again, with the desperate hope that she could be with me again somehow.
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And that's about where I woke up.
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It began with me living the life of a peasant, in some small kingdom in some random country- I helped my family with day to day stuff, but as time went on I grew discontent with what went on around me. So discontent, in fact, that I attempted to find a way out of it. To become something more. And so, I left home to do just that. I searched the world, and made my way through crazy means until I eventually found a book detailing the journeys of a man who seemed to be in my exact set of mind, and detailed a power to move beyond the world he once knew. I followed the book's clues to find... Myself.
My own corpse laid at the site the book detailed, along with a stone where the heart of the remains should have been. Grabbing it, I realized immediately what I had gained and who I was- I was the incarnation of a being that was capable of shifting dimensions at will, and further could sense the general structure of each so as to fine-tune my hopping. The world become more vibrant, a surrealists take on infinity.
Naturally, I sought to use the power to get more powerful. My first stop was a dimension in which technology had progressed to a state of magical fluidity. While there, I drew on their knowledge to create myself an item that, basically, gave me the powers of superman (Plus being unable to age) without the drawbacks. It was bonded to me, and with it I skipped across dimensions randomly, languidly exploring and connecting with people on my way through.
Eventually, I met a woman while walking through the streets of a dimension that was a lot like 1920's Urban America. Her dark hair was held up always, and she had a softness to her that few people possess outside of their closest relationships. Despite seeing millions of people in hundreds of subjective forms of reality, she tapped something within me that was deep and unmistakable. I grew, in time, to know her and her place in the world- she seemed ever content to be with me, not knowing of who or what I did. It was peaceful for a time.
For reasons I didn't understand at the time, she was to attend a great ceremony in her honor that would be held on a beach by the ocean. She didn't speak much of it, but seemed happy over the event- I attended with her and sat among great people from across their nation. Once an initial speech was over, she rose from the table and walked to the ocean- she was no more than fifty feet away. The waves lapped at her sandaled feet, and the wind blew her dress about. Suddenly, from seemingly nowhere, an octopus of immense size erupted from the shoreline and consumed her. Utterly shocked by this, I was to learn rather quickly from the beast's speech that it was a worthy sacrifice, and it would not destroy their city this year.
I reacted in the only manner I knew how- I decimated the creature with a ferocity previously unknown to me, and razed the ceremony with gouts of flame. With burning hated, I scoured the land for all beasts of a terrible sort and removed them from their stations. Nothing escaped my grasp.
And yet, it did little to quell the feelings I had. Surely, in some other dimension, there was another such as her. With that, I began to seek her again, with the desperate hope that she could be with me again somehow.
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And that's about where I woke up.