bloodsong1 | For the record, third shift kind-of sucks.

Especially when you're on your "weekend" and all you can do is doze all day while the kiddos entertain and feed themselves and it's a struggle to stay up past 3 am.

I had a Wolf encounter this afternoon. I honestly can't say if it was a dream or not. I was curled up on the couch while the Cuteness played on the computer and IDK was playing on the Wii and I felt someone sitting on the couch by my feet. I reached out with my right hand and felt fingers, so I curled mine into them and squeezed gently.

The fingers squeezed back.

Semi-conscious, I opened my eyes and tried to See who it was. I was able to make out Wolf's curly hair and most of his profile before I looked away, thinking that if I looked at him head-on, he would have to vanish. I closed my eyes and squeezed again.

The fingers squeezed back.

We fiddled with finger placement and lacing for a little while, then I asked him about the woman Zahde had seen tucking me in a few days back. He didn't know, but he did ask me to not look directly at him because he didn't want to leave just yet. I agreed and focused on his hand holding mine.

At some point he shifted so he could lean over me and give me a hug and a friendly grope. I opened my eyes again and saw him shaking his head at me. He got up, I got up and he used a lit cigarette to burn my face on the left side, just above the jaw.

"What was that for!?" I asked, touching the mark.

"It's your curse," He said, shrugging.

"Curse? What the hell?"

"You'll be free of the curse when you figure out what she wants," He said and disappeared.

Right about then the dream became an obvious dream regarding one of the supervisors at work as a red head arguing with me about unemployment and how I had to prove I had been approved while standing in a desert town.

Yeah.