The Matriarch

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Nov 30 2010
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I'm in a house where a strange family lives. All people here are hillbillies, simple-minded and slow-brained. All of them, except for an old woman. Grandmother to the children who lived here, mother to their parents, she commanded the house and everyone obeyed. She was surely over 80 years old, but she surely didn't show: she'd always move around fast, speak loud and incite fear in all. The hag was tall (at least 6' 2") and really thin, with her gray hair always tied back on a pony tail. She was also extremely intelligent and cunning, even though her family was brainless. That guaranteed she had her own hillbilly army to do her bidding. At to that the fact that she was apparently wealthy (the house was huge, too, it seems), a penchant for evil and a powerful, angry personality and you had a dangerous old hag. She would always be scowling and shouting orders.

I'm not completely sure why I was here, but apparently I had to retrieve (possibly, steal) an object, or discover some information. I had already sneaked in the house. I remember being in a large, dark kitchen. Leaving though a door east, I found myself in a courtyard between two buildings. The sides were walled, though there was no ceiling. It was basically an open-door courtyard, all made of stone. I continued east and found myself in a large room, which was decorated with an Arabian motif, with large pillows, vases and expensive rugs. A group of dogs rushed by, barking loudly. They ignored me. Still, it was impressive that, somehow, they scrambled around in a way that they were walking on the walls and ceiling. (They would keep showing up around this part of the dream, running back and forth through the rooms, never noticing me).

The room continued north, with a door to the northwest, which I knew led to the center of the household. I caught a glimpse of a woman inside, and someone shouted something about being time to breastfeed a baby. I rushed away and hid myself, as a group of fat, dim-witted hillbilly children huddled at the door to watch. I was a little disgusted - I mean, the woman inside was either their mother or - somehow - they grandmother, so why that much interest? I head back west, to the courtyard from before. The dogs rush by again and again, and as soon as I enter the kitchen I'm again surprised by the dogs, always scrambling in impossible ways, and a friend of theirs - a donkey. Unlike the dogs, though, the donkey noticed me, and he was angry. I escaped to the courtyard, and he followed, charging.

As the dogs continued to randomly run around, the donkey was trying to charge me. He'd run on a straight line, in a way that it would always be really easy to dodge, and he'd smash into the walls, apparently with no harm whatsoever. I kept dodging until I could reach the door again. I locked the door to the Arabian room behind me and he seemed to give up. I headed northwest again and though the mother room from before. It was now empty, and I remember it had beautiful salmon-colored curtains and either a large bed or a table with matching colors. I continue outside to a large, outdoors central area. There's a small courtyard here, as well as a large pool. To the north was a large chair/throne where the old hag overlooked everyone.

Since she was nearby, I had to get a disguise. Somehow, I transformed into another person, or possibly a creature. It didn't work quite well - moments later the hag appeared and calmly stared at me. She then proceeded to throw a glass of water on me, making me go back to normal at once. She was, obviously, furious, but I had another trick (it involved me shouting some stuff, though I'm not sure what I did right now), so I managed to escape, even if I hadn't succeeded. Later, my mother had an idea - we'd get what we wanted with an alternate strategy - we'd use politics! She started a political campaign for me (?!) using as headquarters a room inside the hag's mansion. We had a large TV, banners and all that jazz, but I was panicking - we'd be found in no time! What was she thinking?!