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The dream kind of started on a flat meadow. Down the hill I was on, there was a village made of mostly stone huts. I was carrying a backpack with my belongings in them. I was a traveler of sorts, a seer. I traveled from village to village, helping what I could with that knowledge I gathered from other villages and what I could "see". The Kind Man was there, a specific DC that has been with me in my dreams every so often for sometime now. He was also a traveler, just happening to settle down at the same time I was. The weather was quite sunny and the village was near a lake. He invited me to travel up to the lake with him to fish a little bit, away from the village. After setting my pack down, I told him I would meet him there, but first I needed to take care of a few things at the village. I met with the village elder, and brought him news from a neighboring town of a great hunt that will be happening next month. The particular village I visited in the dream had prized hunting grounds, and thus had excellent hunters. I recommended to the elder to enter some of his finest hunters. The elder was a bit hesitant of sending one of his own far away. I told him that if it'd soothe him, I'd be willing to accompany some of his men for a price. He agreed reluctantly, and offered me some money.
After taking the money, the village elder told me that the hunting was good this season and the gathering of herbs and vegetables and whatnot was equally plentiful. He offered that if I needed to restock my provisions, I was more than welcome to. I thanked him for the generosity and set my pack down at the elder's home in order to find the Kind Man at the nearby lake. He was fishing there, with a small basket of fish already beside him. He lifted his wide-brimmed hat to look at me and smiled, saying something along the lines of "I hope the chat with the old fellow was pleasant". I told him there was nothing to worry about, taking a fish from his basket and beginning to chew on it. He didn't seem to mind and he pulled out another fish from the lake to replace it. Then he asked me if I had "gotten up to any of that human business recently". I spat out a bone and asked him why he was interested, then told him that me sleeping schedule has been a bit off. He got his sad smile look, and told me that he would be the first to know that kind of information. I pondered a bit and told him that I had something to ask him. I drank some of the lake water while thinking of how to word it, before finally looking to him and asking him if he knew who my soul-mate was.
He stared at me for a little while, then gave me that side smile of his again and asked me "who set this up for you this time?". I didn't respond to the question, and he looked back to the lake. By then, it was night and the stars were out. He pulled out another fish and placed it in his basket before speaking further. He said something like "but isn't it you who claimed to have no soul? Why ask me who would be the match for what you never had?". I looked down and felt quite sad when he said that, and he tsked under his breath and pat my shoulder in a comforting manner. He told me "maybe it would be better for you to stay with me here. It's a nice world, there is plenty of food and there isn't much suffering. You would enjoy this life.". I told him that I couldn't, and he knew it as well as I. He tsked again and then told me "then I would ask that you keep your heart here, at the very least. It's far too large for that tiny world you wake up into". I asked him how to do that, and he opened his mouth, then closed it, tapping a hand on his chin as if pausing to think. He suddenly changed topic then, and asked me if I wanted to cook fish with him. I agreed, and he left to gather wood. He came back a short while later and set up a fire.
I could explain further. We talked more about other stuff, to which I divulged to him that I had gotten the original question of the soul-mate from a place called dream-views. He asked me what I was trying to accomplish, to which I responded "answers about you and this". He gave me another sad smile and said nothing about it after that. We talked more about idle dream-stuff, such as the new hunting grounds across the mountains, and that he wanted to accompany me to the competition. A bunch of other stuff happened, but that was about all that happened that was related to the question I asked him.
I'm sorry if this is terribly long! I tried to keep it as relevant to the question as possible without diverging too much. I'm unsure what it all means, but it's certainly interesting.
