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Bident

Dreamed 2019/9/29 by Wayan
for the twenty-plus candidates of 2020

I fight a blue-skinned Andorian in a shadowy library. Dream sketch by Wayan. Click to enlarge.

I'm lost in the Library Labyrinth. The stacks are 3-4 meters high, needing ladders to reach the upper shelves. Dim light at ground level, dark above. And in that dark atop the shelves, Sinister Librarians rustle and skitter and hiss.

A hard blow to my head! A heavy, squirming... man? Not quite. He's blue-skinned, with writhing antennae like a slug. An Andorian. Pugnacious, mistrusting Earth people. They're in a weighty 19th Century novel. The Librarians pulled him out, and tossed him down on my head! The drop is long; he hit hard. We're both half stunned.

But he blames me, not the Librarians. Even for an Andorian, this guy's paranoid. Just fights, won't listen--certain I'm an enemy. He stabs at me with a sharp footlong knife. No, weird loops of steel like a huge safety pin, with wicked twin prongs, like a broken fork or trident.

A bident?

He tries to kill me; I fend him off. Pry the bident away from him at last, and jab him back. "How do you like it? Back off!"

Nope. Talk won't solve my Andorian problem. He clings, tries to choke me, gropes as if to pull out a second knife/fork/pin. I'm reluctant to stab him deep, but keep poking him. Has to hurt, but he won't let go.

At last the Evil Librarians send a rope down with a flopping bundle. I fend him off long enough to get a look. It's a Ponderous Tome! A fat cookbook carefully tied open to a page with a recipe... for killing, gutting, cleaning and cooking Andorians.

How helpful they are with my Andorian problem! Which they caused.

I don't want to kill him, but he clings tight, strangling me. At last, desperate, I cut deep--slice his chest and belly open. He weakens, but STILL fights on...

...and I wake, sweaty and shaking.

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