July 1/2, 2005

In a hallway with Willy. It's apartment width, but very bright, like a hospital. I open a door and go into an apartment. There's a door on my right, and W's inside, but I can't open it. Something's blocking my way. I know it's an evil force, so I shout at Willy to come help me. He rushes over, and we start smashing the door. Eventually it springs open, and I go inside. W's being choked by an invisible entity. I run over and break it up somehow, but the thing's still lingering around. We can feel it in the room, even if it can't be pinpointed. It wants to isolate us, and it can close the doors to keep us out. I'm sitting on a daybed on the opposite wall from the door, and W and Willy are across, on the floor. There's a black cat on the bed, and the evil thing is going to attack it, but they don't know. The cat's lying on its back, and I start drawing crosses on its belly with my finger to see if that will help. It's having the opposite effect though, and the force is making its limbs stretch out uncomfortably. I'm trying to hide it from W because she'll freak out. Eventually it stops. They start to leave the room, and I say something about how we have to stick together, because otherwise we'll get trapped in a room. Right after I tell them, they go out and the door starts to slam shut. I shoulder through though.

We go into another room, kind of a darkened living room. There's a very wide couch, at the height of a bed, to the left, with a long table in front of it. It's almost like a restaurant booth style, but about 15 feet wide. W is sitting on the closer side, doing some knitting. There's no room, so I cross to the far side, and sit behind AN. The seats are arranged to watch a large TV along the wall. It's a dark room with wood paneling, but there's a wall of windows on the right, where the door was where we came in. I'm waiting anxiously, because something bad is going to come there outside, and I have to be ready. I sense the thing has shown up, so I move across the room. People are telling me to get out of the way, because they're watching TV. I go to a sword rack on the right, and grab one that's in the shape of Hadhafing, but with a damascus katana blade, and a carved pale blue ivory grip. The door is on the back wall now, so I head that way to go out the front. JB's mom is there, and she asks me if I'm going to go out in public like that. I have the sword tucked down my back, and I don't think it'll be a problem because I'm not going out that far anyway. There's a room beside the front door, and when I look in, I see SB isn't there, and I hope nobody notices. I don't know where he is, but I hope he's ok, because he's supposed to be in there. Slate's with me now, and we go out the front door. It's a long rectangular lot, with the house taking up most of it, and a driveway on the right ending in a garage. We walk toward the back. There's a small pickup truck parked there, facing the front, and the back is filed with firewood, which is being stolen from the house. Zen is there, and he's with a girl. As we approach, he passes me and says that "it's her," and points to the girl. I get closer to take the wood back out, but then the truck is quite a few feet away, and pointing the other direction. They're pushing it, and I'm not going to be able to catch it. They go into the garage, which has openings in the front and back, onto a lane, but when they get inside everything comes flying out of the back. I go up, and the truck's gone. They're underneath the pile of stuff, which is now cardboard boxes filled with reams of paper. I take the sword out, and slice through a piece of cardboard that's sitting right in front of Zen's head, to show him not to take anything more. The girl's gone out into the back lane, so I follow her, and tell the other person to watch her. When I turn around, Zen's trying to sneak off with a box of paper. I'm sad, but I have to punish him, so I hack at him with the sword. It's really dull now though, so it barely cuts him. The girl's stealing stuff too, so I do the same thing. I turn back to Zen, and he holds his left arm out. I chop at it once, and barely do anything, but try again from a different angle, and it cuts almost all the way through his arm.