Saturday, October 20, 2012

Lost Dream - Sayid

Just woke from an extremely vivid dream where I was Sayid and I found Nadia in Afghanistan. We were captured by insurgents and put in the back of a van with others they had taken hostage, including children, while the van traveled around the city delivering weapons. The Afghani military was tipped off about the van and came after us. The insurgents opened the back doors and fired at the army/police who returned fire with machine guns. I tried to protect her and pulled her to the side of the van even while bullets ripped through everyone else. Though we still received a few grazes, we managed to survive that only to get caught at a road block. We knew no one would believe that we weren't part of the terrorists, so we got out of the van right away, blended with the crowd and slowly, calmly started to walk away before we could be connected. But she was bleeding, and we couldn't hide forever. Then I looked up and noticed we had left the city in our chase and were in a forested region.. And the army was burning it to flush out any other terrorists. We were trapped. We couldn't go forward for the flames, nor back into the arms of the army, or we would surely be executed. We say an abandoned van seat at the side of the road and though I knew it would not protect us, we climbed under it. The last thing I remember was climbing on top if her to try to shield her from the coming fire.

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