New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight

2017, 04-10

Illegal Trinkets

I am on a motorcycle on my way to work. I still have a long way to go. I look down at the controls between the handlebars, and I see that the check engine light is on. The oil light is also on. There would appear to be some trouble with the engine. I don't think that I can make it all the way to work. So instead, I turn around and head back home. I get home OK, and drive my motorcycle into the carport. The carport has somehow become a garage. I go into the house to say hi to my mom. She doesn't seem surprised that I'm home so early. She behaves as if I've been gone all day. She asked how my day went. I tell her that I never made it to work. She seems to think that stranger than the fact that I got home so quickly. So she continues doing what she had been doing, and I going to my room. I look out my bedroom window and I see something even stranger. We are no longer in a normal house, now we are on a boat. All I can see outside is endless ocean. I don't stop question how our house has become a houseboat. I go outside onto the deck so I can look out over the open ocean. There is a cool breeze blowing in off the ocean. I see another boat approaching ours. I immediately recognized as a merchant boat. Apparently the owner of this merchant boat is hoping to sell us something.

I go to the end of the deck where the other boat is docking. I climb onto the merchant boat and go over to the cabin. There are many different items on display in the cabin. I looked through the different items, looking at various trinkets and knickknacks. There are a lot of interesting things there. As I'm looking through the items, I noticed a few specific ones. I notice a couple of pendants that are shaped like promises that I like. I also see a few little knickknacks that are shaped like. I find a couple of white figurines and look exactly like my white cat Princes. I pick up these items and take them over to the cashier. The cashier is a middle-aged man, and there's a younger woman standing next to him, possibly his daughter. He sells me the items and thanked me for my business, and then I get back onto my own house boat. The merchant boat sales with our boat and disappears into the distance. I finally go back inside the house to see what my mom is up to. I am wondering if it's a bad idea to show her the things I bought. I get the idea she's going to think that I was being foolish. I'm not sure where this feeling comes from. It turns out my mom is not paying any attention to me. I don't think she even realized the merchant boat came back.

I take my purchases into my bedroom and put them on the dresser. I see some strange lights outside. I go over to the window and look out. There are several boats outside circling our houseboat. The other boats have flashing red and blue lights on them, like police vehicles. My mom goes out to meet the police. I stay just out of sight inside the houseboat where I can hear what is being said. The police are looking for some merchant boats that they say have been selling stolen items. I turn and go back inside. The things I bought aren't important to me, so I figure I might as well hand them over to the cops. When I get back into my room, I am surprised to see there is someone else there. The woman from the merchant boat is in my bedroom. She says the police are not really looking for stolen property, they are looking for her. She said she hasn't done anything wrong, but they're planning on getting her locked up regardless. She said she has too much information on a certain conspiracy that's been going on. Now I'm completely unsure of what to do. I wonder if I can even believe with the young woman is saying. She seem sincere, but I have no way of knowing.

I go back out in the other room and I see the cops are in the house now. My mom points towards my room and says the person they are looking for is in there. She then apologizes to me, saying my new friend is a wanted fugitive so we can’t be hiding her. I’m not even sure how my mom knew the woman was in my room. One of the police officers has a staff in his hands. He comes towards me and says to move aside and let him into my room to apprehend the suspect. He doesn’t even wait, however, before using the staff. The staff seems to emit waves of force to both cause pain and push people out of the way. I am annoyed that he went right to using the staff, so I resist, standing up to the waves of force. I don’t even notice much pain. The cop looks annoyed at my resistance and turns up the force. I still notice very little pain and I stand up against the force. The cop glares at me and says I will be arrested, too. I tell him he’ll never find me. Right at that point everything fades and I wake up.