Dreamed of the Strangest Creature
These are the times I wish I had the ability to draw well. Or at least get the image from my head onto the page with some accuracy. The dream itself was the odd sort of dream that I thought I'd forget within hours, but this creature stayed with me. Saturday night—spent quietly in my Tomb, recuperating from the night before—I tried to cobble together some rough semblance of the creature using pieces of other creatures, inexpertly reassembled in Photoshop. It's not entirely "accurate" but it's the closest I'll have.
THE DREAM...
Some nonsense involving exes of some manner. A lot of that narrative has gradually faded from memory. Nothing inordinately awful but perhaps slightly melancholy.
At a certain point, I find myself approaching a duck pond that is situated in the middle of a city. A really clean city, like Metropolis or something. Bright and blue and concrete...
The duck pond is large. And people are allowed to wade into the water amongst the ducks. I walk into the water a bit and see all the ducks coming my way...
... and from a greater distance, a stranger creature approaches...
I only get a sense of the size of this bizarre thing as it nears. It's huge. A head sort of like a parrot with a downward sloping beak. Bright green. At home with the other waterfowl, it swims closer, rising up out of the water. It is massive and slow-moving. The other people are not shocked by it. They respect its presence and move out of the way as it steps onto dry land. It moves with a sense of majesty. Large claws sink into the earth. The back length of its body is more silvery and segmented, like some manner of sea serpent. But it also looks like it may be capable of flight.
The way the people move around the creature, you might think it were some sort of deity. A God-creature to the people of this small, utopic city.
If anyone out there has seen this creature—or can draw a better depiction of her—please alert me.
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