Beckah and I are on campus, but it's a different version of campus. We are walking toward the car, where it's parked, and discover that a huge old SUV thing with a lift kit has parked ON TOP of our car. Or "over," to be more precise. We climb in and prepare to back out from under this car, when we start to notice that things are weird...the seats are pushed forward, things are missing (like my wallet), and we find a sword and a small dagger. And the keys are suddenly magically tied to my shoelace. Then we find a letter calling us to play this role-playing fantasy game, which makes us both furious. We have a ton of stuff to do and these people stole some of our belongings.
After leaving and conferring with friends and family, we bring Isha and dad back, and then we all climb into the SUV ourselves. We start looking through their trash, looking for a name or phone number. We find a wallet, but suspiciously, we find that they have at least four different driver's licenses (all with different names and phone numbers). We discover a few advertisements for a story-telling group, and the name on the flier is the same as the name on one of the driver's licenses, so I call Judy to ask her if she has contact info for this group. But Shadi answers the phone (my old boss from Kirby) and tells me Judy isn't there. Then we find a cell phone, and Isha and dad somehow figure out how to find all of their contact info by taking the cell phone and hooking it up to a computer and running a "spider program." Which consisted of actual spiders digging through the info, wrapping what we wanted in silk, and delivering it to us.
So we call the number, and a friendly, slightly flirty guy answers and says he's excited to meet us and that he'll meet us at the car(s). When he comes, it's him and his brother, and they're both nerdy but extremely shmoozy. We request our belongings (wallet, especially) and say something to the effect of "Take your invitation back. We don't want to play." The main guy smiles and starts opening the doors of my car, and digging things out that I didn't even know were there, but his familiarity makes me furious. I take the sword out of the car, and hand Beckah the dagger. I walk up to the main guy, and point the sword at him.
"Here. You forgot this," I say. He smiles and starts to take the hilt from my hand. Before he can take it, I snatch it away and put the sword at his throat. "And if you ever try to steal things from this car again, I will end you." I glare for a moment, then start to return to the car.
He smiles and says "Why should you have the right to decline this game?"
I turn and lean on the sword. A breeze picks up and blows my hair (which is long in this dream). "Because I am a woman. And that is enough."
The guy smiles again, but this time like something has dawned on him. "Now," I say. "I'll return this sword to you, and you and your dumb-ass brother get your SUV off my car." (In retrospect, it seems that returning the sword was a risky thing to do given the confrontation. But in my dream, my certainty in the power of my sex was so solid that it didn't cross my mind to worry.) The two boys get in their car and have some trouble figuring out how to move it, until one of them says "Just do the same thing you did last time." And then the other farts and the power of it lifts the entire car up into the air enough so that they can back up and "free" my car.
And then Beckah, Isha, my dad and I all drive into the sunset.
I'll come back and analyze this dream a little later. Right now I'm too swept up in its awesomeness.
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