[ dreamlog ] Apparently mermaids like pastry

[kiya]

I have a lot of pieces of this one but I'm not sure entirely what order they go in, and some of them are weirdly specific. I suspect this is a part of The City that I'm not usually dreaming in, given the sense of familiarity I had with the geography: I have a map in my head (very Google Maps style) in which there is the option to take the sort of zig-zaggy nightmare course across-town that looks like the ripped edge of a piece of construction paper or, more sensibly, just take the main road northwest up to Jennifer Street and then take that down (south by southwest), which involves going up a hill but also less fiddly bits. (This is the first time The City has given me a streetname.)

Apparently that chunk of The City, in the southwest, is basically the equivalent of 'buildings are surrounded by conservation land' and somewhere in there is this pastry shop. It had decadent brownies the size of my palm, jam-filled open-face tarts of roughly the same size, and Other Things I Don't Recall, and the proprietor is a large muscular bald man who happens to be shapeshifted merfolk. There is a whole lot of plot that faded out upon awakening about the people who can perceive that the man's not human and the people who aren't and what the dangers are about this so apparently this chunk of The City is an urban fantasy setting, but in any case keshwyn was about and was very pleased to learn that someone she actually knew was aware that the fairies had a pastry shop in the woods.

There was also a whole thing about bees. I remember nothing but the existence of the bees. They were probably on the pastry shop's land.