I stopped to take a nap after searching for a while. I had a dream:
[color:"pink"]While I was searching for Viper, the winged one, I came across a huge valley with enormous vertical cliffs on the north and south sides. A river flowed through the valley, and one of the istands in that river had a large black castle on it. I visited the castle and searched through its crowded halls and dungeons. Those orcs smelled bad, but the humans there were even worse. That's when I found Lynn. I used my lockpicks to open her dungeon cell and woke her gently.
"Do you want to escape? I know the way out of here."
She nodded and smiled, as if she knew exactly who I was and had expected me to be the one to wake her up. I gave her the nametag with her name on it, and she said simply "Thank you, BeeGee." Strange. That's when I realized that she looked and was dressed precisely the way I remembered her in the contefrance room -- whereever that was.
I checked the corridor for guards, but it was very, very quiet. I started to lead her to the stairs that go up to the ground floor and open into the Inner Bailey of the Castle. It was obvious that we needed a plan, a diversion, or something to get past the guards. But Lynn stopped me with a gentle touch on my shoulder, and said "In here" pointing to a chamber hidden under the dungeon stairs.
I followed her into the chamber. Lynn pulled a dusty old sheet off of a standing mirror and rubbed the dust off of the glass with part of the sheet. As we stood in front of the mirror I could see her and an older man with long curly brown hair dressed in shorts, boots and wearing a pith helment. The man seemed to be mimicing my every move (except for the floating in air part) and my facial expressions, too.
Lynn painted a mystic rune in the air and the image in the mirror changed to show a forest, a campfire, and a now very familiar group of people. She painted the air rune again and I saw Viper perched on a high rocky place with his head tucked under one of his wings and one leg pulled up against his belly. Lynn took my hand and we --- walked into the mirror --- and we were standing next to Viper on a high, windy, cold, mountaintop.
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Then I awoke and continued my search. I decided to look on mountaintops for Viper, for a change.
