Dreamlog

[kiya]

I was puttering about an open-air market of some sort (or one of those things that was somewhere between like a con-space and an open-air market, in which inside and outside were rather ambiguous in the way of dreams). I was hungry, so I stopped at a shop, and wound up ordering a couple of devilled eggs.

While I was waiting for my order to get packed up, a woman - who had ordered from the same store, some related dish but not the same - started causing difficulties. She was up to her elbows with orangish goo from whatever she's ordered, and she was being physically intimidating, bordering on violent. (The woman was thin, white, shorthaired - she actually kind of looked like Rachel's playby for Alternity - did not seem to be anyone in particular.)

Nobody was stopping her. It was the standard 'waiting for someone else to make the first move' situation. And eventually I stepped in, tried to get her to stop, and she whirled on me and attacked me.

The thing was, I was stronger than her, and I managed to get her down and pinned without too much trouble. And I asked people to get security, to help, and there was a little ripple, and still it was like nothing had happened. People were just trying to ignore the damn wrestling match, pretend like it wasn't happening.

And for all she didn't keep up physically struggling too much, she kept trying other things. (And security wandered through, took some notes about what was going on, and did not intervene.) Somehow she unbuttoned my shirt, for example, in the hope that if I were vulnerable enough I would let her go. Or she would make suggestive comments to the bro-types in the vicinity as if my pinning her down was some sort of orgy invitation, to get other people to contribute with violence to let her go.

Eventually I was in tears, still trying to handle this deranged problem woman, and shouting, "I just! Wanted! My eggs!" Hungry and tired and still no help with the damn problem.

(There was a splice here with some ritual magic in this dream, but I remember this part and I don't remember why there was the fancy outfit and the incense and stuff in kind of interspersed whatever.)