march 19

on adam's night off, we finished watching cirque du freak: the vampire's assistant.

then i feel asleep. last night's dream:

there was an indigenous people living somewhere really cold, like northern canada. they lived in teepees, and their camp was surrounded by really huge pine trees--ones that had obviously grown for several hundred years. also surrounding their camp was a wolf pack, bloodthirsty and not afraid to raid the village for their meals. the people lived in constant fear of the wolves, which attacked day or night.

enter a young boy (me... what?). i am the savior of these people, but i don't know how i am supposed to save them. i wandered into their village one day, and they surrounded me, saying, "this is the boy from the prophesy!"

one family took me into their home and put me to work like everyone else in the family. my job was to gather kindling for the fire. i had to wander around the giant pine trees. i heard some howling, so i started running back to the village. suddenly, a small canine tumbled in front of me. it was a puppy--not a wolf. i picked him up and brought him back to the village.

the people had never seen a dog before. previous to this puppy, they had relied on cats to sense when the wolves were coming. (as one would imagine, the cats turned out to be fairly unreliable.) this puppy, however, could hear or sense when the wolves were coming and started barking as soon as we entered the village. the chief recognized the barking as a signal, and everyone grabbed their spears.

for the first time, the people were able to repel the wolves from their village.

turns out, i fulfilled the prophesy by finding a puppy. i also fulfilled the other part of the prophesy (which had not been told to me, either) by getting bitten in the arm by the lead wolf. i was scarred for life, but everyone knew that i was the one with the alarm-dog, so no one said anything about my scar.

the end.