Dreaming of D'ni

Last night, for some reason, I had a really hard time falling to sleep. Once I did fall asleep, I had the strangest dream.

The dream started in Relto. It appears to have been my Relto, but it was different. The pillars were all broken. The trees were dry and bare, dead. The hut was in ruins, the wall with the bookshelf missing. There was no grass, a thick layer of dust clinging to the surface of the island. It was not raining, nor a cloud in the sky above them island. Below the island, the clouds were dark, stormy. Thunder could be heard rolling across the sky.

I was lying on the ground where the fissure would appear, in the dust, face down. I can feel the dust coating the inside of my mouth and nose as I breath. I can feel where my chest is pressed against the ground, almost as if my heart is trying to push down into where the fissure should be.

At this point, I think I know this is a dream, because the perspective changes and I turn into water and start seeping into the ground. I can feel myself passing through the earth, and then beyond it, coming away from Relto as a large drop of water, falling into the fissure, past the stars and into the cleft at night, only I do not stop there.

In the dream, I lost all perspective for a moment. I found myself falling through the space of the cavern, heading towards a spot at the Ferry terminal, on the line of the Great Zero. And landed with a splash on a tree growing there, facing the Arch.

And then I woke up.

In my head the following thoughts ran, loudly, over and over:

Relto

Tomahna

D'ni

Water

Stone

Tree

Sometimes I have the strangest dreams.