I was walking in my old neighborhood at night with Brandon and heard goth mom talking about the physical abuse she suffered from an ex the last time she went to the theater with him and how her arms were bruised up. There was a large group of goth friends from the old school and recent scenes around in little cliques and circles, and goth mom was sitting on top of the table on a bench. I walked up to her looking down holding her self and when I got to her she said “oh, honey” and hugged me, Brandon walked around the other side and Vanessa was standing next to goth mom, along with Kat M. I tried to console her and she was happy to be around supportive friends. Then I saw Kat V and introduced her and Brandon formally since they knew each other online through me.
It was around sunset and this huge group was walking out of this casino floors doors to what looked like Fremont only everything was destroyed and not shiny and once we got to the street we were looking down a cliff we had to climb. I saw all of our friends coming through the doors behind us, new ones I’ve met since being here, ones in IT, ones in the scene, ones from Phoenix from earlier. TSO was behind me with a suit case and it was a little off. But still, it was Like we were all united under a cause, like we survived something together, and when I looked ahead I saw you moving forward. So I ran up to you and grabbed your hand asking you to slow down. You asked me why since you wanted to get this climb down over with, and I told you “because once it’s done it’s over” and explained how we have to go through this either way, and I wanted us to take our time and not rush through the descent, and that we could do this together. I squeezed your hand and said when all this was done I’d stay with you, and you were happy, surprised, and a little skeptical. You asked really? And I said yes and kissed you.
You made a comment about some drinking restriction, I think from where you had been, and how you were going to be a super drunk bunny when we got home. You came down these wooden white stairs and I wore this ring on my right hand saying it fit perfect, it was fat and had a green opal in the center, and was meant to be melted down into a smaller more feminine ring later, with the excess becoming a new ring, perhaps for someone else to wear or as a wedding band once it switched hands. You were a happy “drunk bunny” and I went upstairs to a room where there was a display on the table. It looked like those 3D pop up books only much larger and I realized it was a representation of Wonderland. I looked at it as it played back like a memory of how Alice had left Wonderland and the wrong person discovered the books and went there trying to take over. They tried to marry off the girls there, I wasn’t sure if they were Alice’s sisters, daughters, descendants, or otherwise related to her. But people fled and Wonderland was dangerous with people pushing to take it over. You were the last one in the line of succession and everyone was trying to kill you after they couldn’t build alliances with you. We had been called to Wonderland to help and then bring you back home, and I woke up.