Yes there were times, I'm sure you knew,
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out, I faced it all
And I stood tall, and did it my wayHad a totally epic dream last night.
First, let me describe the setting. Imagine a vast canyon in a desert. Suspended in the center of it is an immense darkly radiant spherical sac suspended to the sides by black webs. There are places in between the webs that wind around the sphere where it's soft enough to dive in. Once past the initial membrane, you would find yourself in a dimly lit space that seems to stretch out even further than it appears on the outside. The atmosphere on the inside is like cool air in every respect except you could swim through it like water to get around to the hundreds of smaller spherical building/planets suspended on the inside.
I swam around this place for a bit with my companion. I think he was human, or appeared human, and I was something else, but still vaguely humanoid in shape. Eventually we met a colossal whale with six tails whose eyes alone were bigger than I. It was something like a seer, and said I had to go on a quest to find a hidden power that would allow me to stop a tornado that would otherwise rip through the canyon and destroy the sphere.
My companion and I agreed to help, even though all the other beings that lived in the sphere heckled us, said it wasn't possible, that fleeing was the only option. We ignored them and left to follow the vague clues given by the enigmatic whale creature.
Anyway, cue long adventure sequence that I've forgotten much of. I think we stopped at a tavern at one point to get directions but that's all I remember about that part.
Eventually I did find the thing the whale was talking about and took it into myself. My companion and I made it back in time to see a large tan-yellow tornado entering the entrance of the canyon. Most of the people had already fled, and my perspective shifted to third person view of the cockpit of the flying ark that the denizens of the sphere had used to get to safety. They saw me run for the tornado, and all yelled at me to give up, to not throw my life away, but I continued forward. As I closed ground on it, I felt something changing in me. I leaped into the air while spinning around and transformed into a blue tornado twisting in the opposite direction and clashed with the yellow tornado with equal force. Quickly, the yellow tornado slowed, then dissipated altogether. Everyone in the ark cheered that their home had been saved. I shifted back into my normal form, but the momentum of spinning so fast flung me from the hot desert air into the cold dark sphere. I swam back to the whale to tell it I succeeded, and that I would be leaving to continue my travels, but the whale said it had another adventure for me, and told me to follow. Then I woke up.
The tornado symbolism is of some note to me, since friends have dreamed about me turning into a tornado on more than one occasion.
For what is a man, what has he got,
If not himself then he has not,
To say the things he truly feels,
And not the words of one who kneels,
The record shows I took the blows,
And did it my wayTonight, I gotta help a friend kick some outta control homunculus ass. That's my mission for today. Let it come, my companion and I will take it on.
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