“You think?” Ginny asked, not far from sleep herself.
“I just dreamed it,” the sleepy blonde explained. “I’ll call
her tomorrow… Gotta’ give her our new number anyway…”
The following day would prove Rebecca’s premonition correct when
she telephoned her cousin, Eleanor (more like a sister really), down south in
San Pia.
“That’s right, Becca!” Elly was happy but not overly
surprised to hear that her younger cousin had intuited the news of her wedding
from hundreds of miles away. This was not the first such incident, after all. “Ryan
and I are finally making it official!”
Eleanor would ask Rebecca to be a bridesmaid, of course.
Rebecca would take a leave from The Rolling Bear, head down to San Pia with
Ginny for the wedding. It was a perfect opportunity to introduce Ginny to her
family - the aunt, uncle and cousins she had grown up with since the age of 5.
Now, back in the night of our current moment, Virginia and
Rebecca burrowed deeper into each other and deeper into sleep. Two pairs of
eyelids fluttered as the sleeping women began to dream each of the other.
In their simultaneously joint and respective dream, Rebecca
spoke to Ginny. “Nightbook is my favorite show,” she said, “but I hate Stinky
Pete.”
Ginny pulled a lizard, small to medium in size and blue in
color, from her purse, offered it to Rebecca. Rebecca shrugged a casual “no
thank you” and continued, “I prefer the episodes with Valentine and the other
vampires.”
Ginny nodded, flowers falling from her hair. “I know what
you mean,” she agreed. “I love Valentine myself. And, of course, Svetlana and
the Ghost Yeti…”
Carl Jung passed through the room and both women waved him a
cheery greeting. “Hello ladies…” Herr Jung smiled, moved on, and was gone.
“But,” continued Ginny, “Stinky Pete is a character we will definitely
be seeing more of in the future.”
Here a herd of miniature horses thundered across the floor
of their dream.
Now Rebecca nodded, her hair changing from blonde to green
to black with each movement of her head. “I know what you mean” she said. “I
know what you dream…”
Both women smiled in their sleep and snuggled closer. Around them the shadows of the night darkened room shifted and, a sound not unlike the skitter of windblown leaves, tittered…