Raven and the Wings

Dream march 27 2013



(written shortly after I woke up and forgotten until now, I'm sorry)



Flying with RAVEN and NOVEMBER.

In this dream I was went to this beautiful academy in the country, and I took the yellow shuttle school bus out to town. We passed by a grassy field in the afternoon, with blue skies and dandelions--everything looked vintage-filtered and nostalgic.


I got to this supermarket where lots of interesting things happened. Walked by a fish stall and watched blood and ink burst from a crablike squid (squid with crabby texture but still soft) and the woman behind the counter (who introduced herself as Nina Durjic, a brunette with a strong nose and deep set eyes) apologized and said I was the calmer of the few to watch that happen. EDIT march 29: She looks a lot like the life drawing model in Drawing 1 for our final assignment, though this dream happened before I did the assignment... Scary! A prophetic dream? Anyways, I told her it was fine and I wanted to buy shrimp.


We talked for a lot longer and she walked with me to go to the cashier where it morphed quickly back into the entrance way of the school, like the giant overpass in twilight princess out of castle town before Kakariko gorge. The lighting was now bluer and whiter and more true to colour. However, inside the big gate were a pair of MASSIVE, medium brown, wooden medieval double doors that were arched in shape. Nina complained about how I suddenly flew over head and raced her, but after she grinned, I flew higher than the doorknob. It was kind of mean of me but I slipped in when she heaved open the door a little and I quickly flew to the top of this gigantic cathedral (that felt quite small since I climbed it in wing beats). I left Nina behind yelling that it was unfair, and when I looked down, the view of the top of the cathedral was 2D and like I was playing Legend of Mana ( even though I hadn't played that game before, that was what I associated it with immediately). The cathedral had two spires and a square facade with one rose window, all in gray--I think it might be one of the cathedrals I studied in art history but I can't confirm that yet. Though the front and textures were realistic enough, when I looked down it was pixelly and looked like a throne room with green floors and blue carpet, and an empty throne chair the same colour and texture as the cathedral. Nina's womanly voiced raised higher and higher til it was like a young girl's and she called for me to fly up with her since she wanted to play too. When I landed on the strange pixelly, open roof with the throne it was like seeing the scene warped to perspective--it was eerily flat and smooth with the only real object being the throne, which was the same colour as the warm gray cathedral stone. I dropped off some groceries and flew on the other side, and then I rounded back to the front. The flight was very fun, and the wings on my back actually FELT like they were moving! It was like I had them forever and I was used to the feeling of them flapping. So when I rounded around these other students in dark navy uniforms (the original colour for Saint) kind of rolled their eyes at me with smiles since I was showing off.


It turned out to be Raven waiting for me--Nina had morphed. Raven looked so realistic and felt like different textures in this dream and it makes my heart content. He asked me to give him a piggyback flight and I reluctantly agreed. November was leaning against the stone front gate with a soft smile on his face and watched as Raven tackled my back, wrangling his lithe and small arms around my neck. He was thin and dancer-like and rather weighty. My wings felt weak against our combined heaviness. The wings were dark and dusty in colour, a cool blackish gray near the top and fanning out to warm light gray at the bottom. We failed a few times and I complained that I couldn't fly like this. But Raven giggled and insisted and hugged me tight so I complied, shifting him properly on my back between my wings and I tried to take off. Couldn't. Raven toppled over my shoulder and headfirst onto the stone, crumbling into a pile of silver hair. November freaked out but tried to keep the concerned students at bay while I resuscitated him. I slid my hands into his silky thick and heavy white-silver hair, like soft strands of silk between my fingers, and raised him by the base of his skull. Then he flopped lightly against my shoulder. He smelled kind of nice but he felt unusually heavy. I ignored the prying students as my fingers glowed cyan blue with magic and I worked out the blood flow on the giant bruise on his head. He woke up and blinked his giant pale blue gray eyes at me, each white eyelash in startling definition. He looked like he walked straight out of my digital paintings, all soft tones and shiny skin. But Raven smiled sweetly at me with all the crinkles of his eyes and I told him, annoyed, "I told you I couldn't. Use your own wings."


So Raven's beautiful soft black wings came out of his back and he said "Fine, fine, sorry." He flew with a burst to the cathedral top and November chuckled, following him with white speckled wings like a snowy owl's (my mind probably conjured this image because November has eyes like one). Mine turned orange and brown like a chicken's but I flew fine. I actually liked my new wings better with colour.


Once we were up, we dove down and out the gate and it was... exhilarating. We zoomed back to the supermarket where I slowed down and gave up on doing flips so as to not crash into the walls of products. The supermarket was very typical and atypical of an Asian supermarket at once; it had plenty of daylight and was warmly lit orange like my living room at 125 Winston castle. I zipped around a corner (sth else happened between this scene and that scene but I don't recall. The supermarket's layout is pretty clear in my head so I'll sketch it later. It was shaped like a B, with the entrance at the bottom serif and the fish in the top serif and the next scene happened in that bridging area in the letter B) Angel was there in a cute top talking to Jacky on this short flight of stairs and asking if he knew this brand of snacks were good. I smiled and narrowly slipped by her and she showed me the snack quickly. With her cute hushed voice she asked me"Want some? Do you like this one?" I thought she was chatting to Jacky because she had a crush on him but it turns out she was asking for his opinion on what to get me as a snack gift. I didn't get to talk to Jacky because he walked off but I wanted to catch him before he left again. I walked to this produce-like section and pondered over what to buy my friends. I grabbed a terry chocolate orange for Jacky and moved on. Then when I got to real fruits, me and this unfamiliar older boy who looked like Veina's south asian Cass friend were inspecting what looked like iced quartered pineapple. While the guy sniffed it I saw the label overhead--Penus. LOL. Even the guy and the shop npcs laughed. Pee-nuhsss. Haha! The way they said it in the dream was priceless.


I was rounding near the fish section again and I thought bext time I'd bring Nina some wildflowers for the display. The crabsquid was still there bursting blood and ink again but it still didn't bother me. I thought of taking armfuls of wild flowers on the highway to give to Nina and then I woke up.






Well, the most important part of this dream was seeing Raven in such high definition. It felt nice to have him flutter his lashes at me.