apt-get's journal

It was a kind of religious celebration for the return of my uncle, who was a respected figure in the region, from abroad. We went to a pretty rugged and mountainous area, adjacent to a canyon with a river flowing inside. There were plenty of family members, but also people I was unfamiliar with.

I was dressed up in traditional clothes: a long, loose-fitting robe of beige color, adorned with subtle cloudy patterns. I was also wearing some kind of hat, but can't remember how it looked. It took some time for me to get changed, which exasperated my mother quite a bit. After getting a group picture taken, we went through a narrow opening in the mountain, leading us inside a damp, narrow cave. After a few minutes, we finally reached a kind of opening in the wall of the gorge, lined with a robust-looking railing. Looking down, you could see a house built on a patch of land, briefly separating the powerful water stream in two.

Someone began to narrate how another uncle of mine, who lived here, managed to find back two ancient family heirlooms that were lost in these waters decades ago: a pair of jewel-incrusted maces (of the decorative kind). By attaching a pair of identical copies to a boat and dragging them around in the water, he would listen to the resonance created by the real ones, and triangulate their position that way.

The dream briefly went on a tangent about how people used to fish before modern netting techniques were invented, explaining that they would pay careful attention to which aerial "spots" above the water a fish would be most likely to surface to (either to catch some kind of insect, to jump out of the water, or simply by mistake), then lay down magical or electrical traps above those spots, automatically skewering or electrocuting any fish passing through them. The latter method was more risky, though, as there was a risk of the hunter getting shocked too, which is why it went out of use after some time.

Going back to the ceremony, we watched as my uncle arrived in a plane and landed on the water down below. Someone then came to me from behind and told me that I was being offered a biplane for my twentieth birthday. The dream ended a bit after I started thinking of all the adventuring possibilities that had just opened up to me.