Ive been having some of the weirdest dreams lately..The other night i had a really lifelike one... Only memorable because it contains a concept that, after and during the dream seems like something that I've been aware of for a long time, but in retrospect/research is something that doesn't exist.
Something like.. altar wives, or... something. ("A-something") I can't remember what I was calling them. They are very old ladies who have no one at all. They live in old houses and, on the the day that they are going to die, someone inevitably (or responsibly) joins them and keeps them company until they die. I found myself with one of them at her house. The house was adjacent to a bus stop and I was there under the premise that I would wait with her until the bus arrived, or she died. Whatever came first.
We sat inside and I read her stories while she rocked on a chair. She was so old that her eyes barely opened and she wore a headscarf like a good, cliché old woman.
Eventually we grew tired of reading and went outside to sit on the bench in front of her house, adjacent to the bus stop. We sat as the sun went down and I continued making small talk. Until I looked over and saw her head bend forward, and she died.
When the bus arrived, I closed her eyes and boarded. Her head shot up and her eyes were a burning vivid blue. She got up from the bench with energy she should not have possessed and chased me up to the bus. I got on and said I was sorry but I couldn't wait but she continued to yell nonsense at me and chase me around the bus. All I remember after that is she escalated to become crazier and crazier.
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