Soulless

Let's try to belt this out in less than 10 minutes. Here we go. I had a dream in which I was captured by a group of people who claimed to be my family. I knew that they were not, but they were kind and gentle with me in all things. In fact, they spoiled me with their kindness, and so I allowed myself to remain in their home. The house was old and quite tall. It had a large backyard with muddy grass and a patio, along with steps that led into the front door. I dreamed the family was composed of a mute older woman, a boistrous and generous "mother", and an even more loudly generous "father". The house was in a relatively large town, but not quite a city. I stayed inside mostly to play video games.

In a video game, someone had messaged me while I was playing a game of sorts. The mysterious messager quickly became a friend of mine, there was a kind of wild rebelliousness about him that I was attracted to in the dream. Later, he told me that I was important to a certain group of people, and that it was cruel of them to keep me. He asked me to step outside at night, on a certain day while the night market was open. I did so, and enjoyed the night market alone. The night market was basically chinatown in Toronto, filled with lights and food and open doors filled with interesting knick-knacks as well as markets for all sorts of asian cuisines. I went to a traditional chinese medicine store and bought a few herbs I liked in order to drink when I got home.

As I was going "home", a stranger approached me. I knew immediately it was the Kind Man, this time in the role of a skeevy looking man with dark hair and a dangerous look to his eye. He smiled to me, with slight sharp, fanged teeth. He approached me and introduced himself as my online friend, and said he had much to tell me. He led me away to another area, of which I do not have the time to describe. There we talked about the fact I was being held for the purpose of others, and he would like to introduce me to what they were hiding me from. He led me to anoher's house, and told me that we were going on a hunt.

I don't have the time to explain exactly how, but we ended up killing a small child who lived alone in a house, which was later explained to me to be actually an old monster that took the form of a human. My internet friend (the Kind Man) consumed the person, in such a manner that I understood instinctively that while the Kind Man was merely acting out a role of the dream, he was totally able to stop at any time and chose not to for reasons I do not know. Later on, he led me back home where he told me that I was the "key" to something to open and that it was important, also he warned me of the people who were holding me. He told me that if they found out about him, they would surely kill him without hesitation.

Awesome I can edit this. Anyways, when we came back to the house, he had found some entrails in the backyard. Almost compulsively, he went to take out a bit of intestine and stuck it in his mouth, chewing idly. He told me that the entrails were of the same species as his prey, and this is likely a warning to him to stay away from me. He smiled a bit and told me that it is a foolish waving of power in attempts to ward him off. I know in the dream I was meant to be afraid of him, because he was this murderous cannibalizing monster that was cruel and yet enchanting. However, because I knew it was the Kind Man and he knew that I was just a dreamer, it felt more like a game of pretend than anything else.

After he spoke from me, we heard someone inside asking if anyone was there. I dove under the backyard porch, covered in slick mud. The other man snuggled up with me, trying to hide with me. When the person inside, the loud "father" checked under the porch, the Kind Man barreled past him and made his run for it. I pretended to not know any better. I knew the "father" was calling my bluff, but warned me to not interact with that man anymore, as he is a serial killer murderer and cannibal, and told me to go back to my games. Later on, when they thought I was asleep, I later heard the "mother" and the "father" discussing reviewing my games as I play them, in order to make sure no one they didn't want to was interacting with me through the medium. I woke up shortly after that.