I had a dream

and it was off-the-wall. It was from left field. I both love and hate having dreams like this. I was going to consign this to oblivion RIGHT after I let Ren see it, but I couldn't. It was too, how do I put this... blog-worthy. So I will give you the dream, written down this morning, fresh from memory.

"Rowan had come to Tonasket and was staying at Ren's house. (My Dream-self knew it was Ren's house, but upon waking, I realized it was TOTALLY different.) Rowan had broken up with her boyfriend, right before he was to move to her city. She said she had realized she was too young and had too much of a life to live. She had tracked me down, because she knew me and wanted to see me. We went back to the house. She then lunged at me and started making out with me. I didn't fight it. Kristany called in the middle of it. She said she had found out where I was and who I was with, and had to break up with me because of it. I was a little sad, but not enough to cry. All of a sudden Rowan's ex busted in, with a gun. (pistol, to be precise.) He said he was brokenhearted at Rowan's "betrayal." (his words.) He pulled her off of me and to the opposite end of the room we were in, and pointed the gun at her. I grabbed a gun out of my pocket. (Before this point, it wasn't there.) I leveled it at his head and said I dared him to shoot her. (Wrong move IRL, but dream reality works differently.) He, of course, still loving her, hesitated. This gave Rowan some time. She took his gun, pistol-whipped him, knocking him unconscious, and emptied his magazine and chamber. (His ammunition of choice was AA batteries. Copper-tops. I found nothing weird about this.) I left her with his unconscious body, and ran to get help. (The idea that leaving MIGHT be a bad idea did not occur to me.) Not finding anybody willing to help, not even at the school, (it was raining, but no one but me seemed to notice the school roof was missing.) I ran back to Ren's house (apparently a 30-second run from town) and I heard crying. I snuck quietly to Ren's bedroom (but, again, only my dream-self.) and saw Rowan tied to the bed. [This was the most vivid scene in the dream.] She was upright, arms tied out to her sides, legs tied together at the ankles. The bed frame was wood, and she was so positioned that her lower leg was across the side panel. "You made me suffer, (here he runs his finger down her cheek, which is glistening with tears) and, so, I'll make you suffer, (here he brings his leg up, and slams his foot down onto her leg, there is a sickening crack as it breaks the bone.) With interest." I went to shoot him, but my gun was empty. In my head, I knew I needed AA batteries, and I needed to get them before he hurt her anymore. I went to Ren's kitchen, and was still searching the drawers when I woke up."

You can't make any of this up.