MaevinWren: Dreams

         My friend and I were talking about for a small Renaissance Faire that was going to be set up at a local elementary school. We walked along a chain link fence which she told me is where the sign would go, they were put large signs say something like renaissance revel or ye ole revel or some such thing. There was a very nice grassy area that we passed, surrounded by buildings. I thought it might have been a nice place to put the fair, but I guess it was too small, they were setting up in the large back playground/field in the back which wasn't as nice, but had much more space. We passed the last building that wrapped the far side of the small play yard, dividing it from the larger yard in the back.
          I was talking to my friend about the Ren Faire/carnival that in the play grounds of a school as we passed the first play ground. I noticed that the grass had gotten very long back here. I guess they stopped taking care of it over the summer. Then I noticed something lying in the grass, pressing down the long blades. It was a puppy. A dead puppy, laying stiff in the grass as flies swarmed nosily around its body. We jumped back as the smell assaulted us. My stomach gave a lurch as we rushed past the dead animal. My friend was freaked out, saying something felt wrong. I ignored her and convinced her to keep going.
         Twenty feet further on, we heard the sounds of flies again. With the tall grass it was hard to see anything on the ground in front of us. We almost tripped over it before we noticed the body of the piglet. It's body glistened, stiff and dead and covered in flies. My friend started to hyperventilate. I pulled her away from the body, determined for some reason to continue on. By the time we reached the far side of the large field/play yard my friend was crying and insisting something was very very wrong. We had stumbled across the insect covered bodies of two more dead animals, a young cat and a bunny. I'm much more comfortable around dead bodies, I figured that a dog must have gotten the animals and found little strange about that. Then at the edge of the field a large pig came out of the bushes. It was breathing hard, sounding sick. As we got a little closer, eyes fixed on the large animal, it dropped it head and starts to violently vomit blood.
         We both jump back to avoid being spattered. The pig snorts and squeals, vomits again, then topples over to lay still, on it side in its bloody vomit. This must what happened to the animals we already crossed, I thought. They must have died sooner since they were younger. My friend was freaking out, pulling on my arm to get me to go back the way we came, towards the back entrance of the school. We were still a distance away when we noticed the large spider blocking the back entrance.
         Quickly changing direction, we followed our original path around the side of the building, past the string of dead animals. As we turned the last corner to the front of the school, we found the front entrance also blocked by spiders. Large spiders with human heads. And having turned the corner so quickly, we spilled out almost on top of them. The spiders see us before we have a chance to jump back and hide. They both turn and attack. We realize we have no where to go with the fence behind us and spiders around the other side of the building. I don't want to touch the spiders, so I grab my shoes. As she reaches to grab me, I hit the female spider in the arm with the shoe. She looks down at her arm and exclaims, bewildered "My arms not tired." We try desperately to fight off the spiders. Our efforts quickly prove useless. The female if just about to grab me when I hear her say, "No, I mean I'm just not going to use it." And I wake up.

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