Voices

Hypnagogia: A man's voice laughing, deeply unpleasant. A man and a woman in what looks like an interrogation room, although he is technically free to go at any time, and the organization this woman belongs to is not exactly law enforcement. There is a woman, not human, something else, something dangerous, who is coming for this man - she is not a danger to him, but she is to everyone else - and the people here need to know his story before she gets there. He says to the human woman in the room with him, "And the bounty? <PERSON>'s?" P.Big being the name of the larger of the two bounties he would recently turned in - these people had confiscated his reward money, along with the rest of his belongings. That is the main reason he is still here. She says, "You can have it back. In exchange for the war story." (Woke up. Back to sleep.) A man waiting for a tow truck finally hears a vehicle pull up outside, goes to the window to look. There is a woman in a firefighter's uniform entering the house through the back door, without him noticing, and she watches as the man is killed by a wire around his throat. The two men who killed him pick up his body, standing right next to her but not looking at her or acknowledging her in any way. (Woke up. Back to sleep.) There is a boy with an older woman - possibly his grandmother, though relatively young for it, someone who does not live with him but who stopped by today - he is crouching in a corner with a weapon, listening to what he believes is someone with a gun in his home. He is eager to face them. Footsteps approach the door, the door opens - it is the gardener/maid, and she is carrying a leaf blower, not a rifle. She makes the usual small talk and walks on. His grandmother says to him that she is not going to ask what he was thinking, she is not going to dignify this by discussing it, but she wants him to think about what just happened. (Woke up. Back to sleep.) Last dream was just fragments, but had similar themes from the earlier dreams: something about a boy, an older woman who knows better than him, and a war.