I find myself standing atop a long curving dune, at a low saddle. Is it the rim of a crater? Robed figures glide up to meet me. Human mystics? or... angels?

Whoever they are, they tell me "We prayed for an archangel, a leader who knows what's going on."

And they got... ME? Now wait a minute!

But I go along with them. Oh, I feel like I'm bluffing, but... I'm not. I may not be very angelic, but I have the credentials. I have wings.

And I earned them. I went through Hell. No metaphor--I walked through Hell and up and out, step by step. I breathed that ashen air, I swallowed cinders... in fact, my asshole is still scratchy from a few grains of Hell still lingering inside me. Itch itch itch... Inside their new archangel, the answer to their prayer.

Ugh! I suppose my new friends (or worshipers) would really rather not know about my itchy butt. No need. Time and digestion will expel those last souvenirs. But (not to make a pun or anything...) I wonder if other angels have a little bit of Hell left in them too?

• Christian imagery = Tonight on TV I saw Sabrina the teenage witch open her closet and enter the spirit world. Night, a full moon, cinders underfoot. She's barefoot, winces. Reaches an antique bed ringed by torches; on the bed's a grimoire (spellbook)--her witch heritage! The cinders evoke the fires of the witch-hunts, and the fires of Hell that Christians relegated her ancestors to. A heritage of knowledge and joy... and fire and pain.
• Are there echoes of Cinderella, too?
• Cinders = my own heritage of being different, outcast--and of having strange talents.
• Itchy butt = recently I've been having gut-inflammations--an old illness I thought was gone. The dream says they're just the last cinders of old hell--of childhood persecution. They'll leave on their own--eventually. But, adds the dream, that torment gave me dream-power. Gave me wings.

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