The Fight For The Forgotten Realm

Dream catching

Amelia lets us settle down and she makes us a meal of cheese, wine and fresh fruit. Amelia goes around the corner and comes back with a marvellous red dragon.
"Everyone! This is Tormies!" She says. The dragon sits down, she is tired.
"Can I pet her?" I ask.
"Of course, but be very gentle" she says. I run my incredibly small hand across her ridged red back. Tormies' head tilts up in satisfaction and gives me a playful smile a bit like a dog.
"Would you mind putting that blanket on her?" Asks Amelia.
"Um, sure!" I say enthusiastically. I pick up a hand crafted knitted blanket embroidered with pictures of adorable baby dragons playing. I gently tuck the red dragon in the blanket and she falls asleep. Steam produces from her nostrils.

"It seems like you've got a knack for dragons" says Amelia happily.
"Thanks!" I say.
"I'll just practise my powers" Ruairi says walking outside to burn some trees down.
"Hell no! There's no way you're burning this forest down! Not on my watch!" Says Amelia, while taking him back inside. Meanwhile,
"I need to rest. Wander the realm of dreams. Gather more dream stones. That sort of thing," Kanansu stated. She crossed to the other side of the lab, found a clear space and sat down with her legs crossed. She immediately becomes motionless.

I tap her on the shoulder and she falls out of her trance.
"What is it?" She asks.
"Could you take me to the realm of dreams? I'd like to see how Dream stones are made." I say. She smiles and says,
"Okay, sit down next to me with your legs crossed." She says. I do as she says. Even sitting down, she seems to tower over me; I am Hobbit after all. Kanansu hangs a dream catcher above us.
"Now rest your mind" she says while placing two fingers on my forehead. I immediately fall asleep. Kanansu and I are in the dream dimension. Instead of her staff, she's now holding a net, but instead of the actual net bit, there is now a dream catcher.

"Are you ready to go dream catching?" Kanansu asks.
"I think so" I say. She hands me a smaller dream catcher net.
"Um thanks, you don't suppose, I could get a bigger one?" I ask.
"No" she says with a smile.
"Okay then" I reply.
"Now before we go dream catching, you should know that this can be quite a dangerous profession." Explains Kanansu.
"What's the worst that could happen?" I ask.
"Well we could get stuck in the dream dimension forever, get replaced by Dream clones of ourselves but the worst that could happen is of course; death!" She adds.

"I wish I knew that before we started" I say.
"Hang on! I just noticed something, you're not blind in the Dream Dimension!" I say noticing that instead of white eyes, her eyes are hazel coloured.
"I'm blind in the physical dimension but yes, I can see all in the dream dimension" she explains.
"Cool!" I say.
"Who's mind do you want to visit?" She asks.
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"You can go in anyone's mind" she says.
"Isn't that kind of invading people's privacy?" I ask.

"Ummmmm... lets go Dream Catching!" She says happily. I decide to just roll with it.
"Uh, let's start with something easy, we're going into your mind again." She says. Suddenly we're surrounded by white.
"First off, think of a place or a landscape." Instructs Kanansu. I think of a large beautiful mountain range and I imagine a waterfall streaming down the mountain side. The waterfall flows into a shallow riverbank. On either side of the riverbank are trees and forest.
"Well done! Good visualisation!" She says.
"Uh, thanks!" I say.

"Now think of an animal" she says. I imagine a unicorn slowly gallop out of the forest from behind the trees. Kanansu slowly creeps up on the unicorn raising her dream catcher net and slamming it down on the unicorn. Immediately the unicorn turns into a small pink glowing ball.
"Do you want to have a go?" She asks.
"Um sure" I say.
"I'll think of something easy to catch" suddenly, in front of us is a sleeping baby fox. I hold the net high and bring the net down fast but the fox quickly wakes up moving out of the way fast. It turns it's head around giving me frightened look and then keeps running away.

"I'll think of something easier" she says. Suddenly, a purple butter fly flutters past and I catch it in the net except now it's a glowing purple ball.
"Now I'm going to wake us up to show you how to make dream stones with dreams we caught. Hundreds of thousands of portals immediately turn up everywhere,
"Through this one says!" She says gesturing to the portal right in front of us. Just as I go to walk through, the baby fox runs up at us pushing us all into the portal directly behind us.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!" I scream as we fall down, down, down.
"Kanansu! Where are we?!" I yell.
"Ruairi's mind!" She yells as we continue falling.
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