Fragment of Dream

I dreamed last night, which I apparently haven't done in Quite Some Time, and woke up with a piece stuck in my brain, all splintery-like.

There was a book (like a library book -- hardback with a paper dust jacket wrapped in plastic). I was reading from it, possibly from the inside flap. It said "Of course, there were inter-racial clans, clans that would accept anybody, but they were the poorer clans. Most of them had never felt the bite of gold on their fingers. But then, in my nearly 8 centuries upon this earth, no man has ever offered to make me Queen, either. Or at least, no man of worth."

In context, it seems that the speaker was a member of a clan that all looked alike and pretended to be a family. The advantage to this was that the younger-looking ones could go out in public for some years, and then the older-looking ones could take over the identity, and in a few years, the younger-looking ones would re-emerge, pretending to be the next generation. The 'bite of gold' seemed like a badge of office, a ring that designated the rulers of all the clans. The clans didn't seem to be vampires, but they were some sort of immortals. I believe that the speaker was a voudoun practitioner. She later clarified her age as being either 758 or 785.

It seemed like it might be a good story. I'm thinking of writing it someday, if I don't read it first.

ALSO YES EDIT:
At some point, I was in the house of chaosdruid and niveus_tigris, and erusumbros was also there. It was raining outside, really pouring buckets. As I crossed the threshhold, someone inside shouted 'Fire!', which I thought might have been related to me leaving the premises (not that I started a fire, but that in some way, my being there was preventing the fire).

AND THEN AGAIN:
I was thinking that one or the other of the numbers would correspond a la gematria to something interesting... and maybe they do. 758 could relate back to 'ambush/unexpected destruction', 'copper/worthless', or 'the fifth part of something/one-fifth'. 785 could relate back to 'until I set'. Maybe one of those things will be useful.

Fragment of Dream

I dreamed last night, which I apparently haven't done in Quite Some Time, and woke up with a piece stuck in my brain, all splintery-like.

There was a book (like a library book -- hardback with a paper dust jacket wrapped in plastic). I was reading from it, possibly from the inside flap. It said "Of course, there were inter-racial clans, clans that would accept anybody, but they were the poorer clans. Most of them had never felt the bite of gold on their fingers. But then, in my nearly 8 centuries upon this earth, no man has ever offered to make me Queen, either. Or at least, no man of worth."

In context, it seems that the speaker was a member of a clan that all looked alike and pretended to be a family. The advantage to this was that the younger-looking ones could go out in public for some years, and then the older-looking ones could take over the identity, and in a few years, the younger-looking ones would re-emerge, pretending to be the next generation. The 'bite of gold' seemed like a badge of office, a ring that designated the rulers of all the clans. The clans didn't seem to be vampires, but they were some sort of immortals. I believe that the speaker was a voudoun practitioner. She later clarified her age as being either 758 or 785.

It seemed like it might be a good story. I'm thinking of writing it someday, if I don't read it first.

ALSO YES EDIT:
At some point, I was in the house of chaosdruid and niveus_tigris, and erusumbros was also there. It was raining outside, really pouring buckets. As I crossed the threshhold, someone inside shouted 'Fire!', which I thought might have been related to me leaving the premises (not that I started a fire, but that in some way, my being there was preventing the fire).

AND THEN AGAIN:
I was thinking that one or the other of the numbers would correspond a la gematria to something interesting... and maybe they do. 758 could relate back to 'ambush/unexpected destruction', 'copper/worthless', or 'the fifth part of something/one-fifth'. 785 could relate back to 'until I set'. Maybe one of those things will be useful.