i dreamed...i can't remember what came first, all the details are fuzzy, but there was a part where i saw a huge crowd of penguins around one really tall adolescent penguin and i could see the mom there too but the dad was next to me a ways away from the group, playing guard or something

then a stranger jumped out of the water! i forget what the stranger was but the dad sucked in his breath and yelled so hard he turned blue! i couldn't help laughing as i took a picture, but then i noticed the other penguins were staring so i explained and offered to show the picture and mom penguin eagerly agreed

baby penguin looked sort of miffed at no longer being the center of attention...

umm after chatting with the penguins for a bit i turned around again and everything was tropical and there was some sort of play going on? only there wasn't any stage and there wasn't much of an audience

something in this scene reminded me of the wen family from modao, but the audience was mostly like...sesshoumaru, ganondorf, some villains i don't remember...sesshoumaru later on was holding a sign saying something was wrong here but ganondorf decided to just leave instead

something something we were now on a wooden walkway by a brownish-gray lake? a group of people were making their way into the water, moving single file behind a tour guide of some sort

i tried following them! you could just barely see a thin wooden walkway rising up from the depths but it never quite reached above water

i followed the path! to a door at the other side of the lake! and behind that door was a dilapidated building currently undergoing repairs or construction or something

you could see tarp-covered walls and wooden boards and plaster and suddenly i heard people coming so i looked around for an exit but the one exit door was a big wooden one with double locked bolts

there was another door that was small and easy to open so i ducked in there (it was at least a head shorter than me) only to discover it led to a tiny sectioned-off gap between the first room and the next

it made an absolutely terrible hiding place because the walls around this gap were barely hip height, if that

i tried ducking in a corner but you could easily see me from the door, so i moved closer to try crouching behind the partition and hoping they mistook me for part of the furniture

they didn't

the people i was trying to hide from turned out to be jing guangyao and a mean-looking pinch-faced old lady...they had me sit with the others while they chatted about some play or other and basically treated us like family

it turned out they often watched this one certain play and the lady every single time would offer candy to this girl because part of the performance involved her calling someone mama and the lady lived for that moment

so she'd give a big lollipop and get her "mama" and the girl would stand for a moment with the candy and a letter and a certificate or something and then the lady would take the candy back because she's rude

the girl looked unhappy but probably used to it by this point

i crawled over to my sis, who'd somehow got herself a bed and was languishing in it, and showed her this comic i'd found--i don't remember what the comic was but it was drawn in old american comic style, like the old superman stuff

though it looked more like some sort of detective story maybe? lots of suits and hats and city streets

also though i'd understood the comic a moment ago it was now in russian so sis couldn't read a word of it, so i pulled it over like "i can read it!" and stared at it and it was now chinese? my dad stood...next to the bed? and said something like "at least one of us can read it" in a sarcastic tone of voice

an incredibly small group of pirates snuck in at some point because they'd heard a friend say acting was a great way to get money and they were gonna use that in their scheme

based on their conversation though it sounded like they were comedy goon levels of incompetent...also suddenly we were inside in the dark and my phone had started vibrating back over by the couch where i'd been sitting before

i rushed to answer! it was a video call with a huge group of people? i want to say it was the penguins but i don't think it was

i remember i tried showing them my sis? and then something something i was walking my sick and tired brother in his pjs through what appeared to be an underground tunnel or subway station

we got pretty far i think? only we'd apparently missed the train and a sudden blackout took out the lights and as we sat there in the semi-darkness i pulled my 2ds out of my bag, turned it on, and quickly turned it off again because the screen showed tv static and the battery bar was draining like a milkshake

i checked the battery compartment (my 2ds now ran on aa batteries) only to discover there weren't any batteries at all...

i checked the battery compartment (my 2ds now ran on aa batteries) only to discover there weren't any batteries at all...

occasionally throughout this scene my brother would make commentary but i remember literally none of what he said...anyway a guy who looked like crowe from the trails series was sitting on mini bleachers on the other side of this space we were in and offered to get us batteries

i started to accept his kind offer, but something seemed off so instead i tucked my 2ds back in my bag (a drawstring pouch) and said i didn't necessarily need it...i could chat with my brother instead

crowe said he understood, that was perfectly cool, something something mama woke me up