The Nomad Chronicles

I am a short muscular bartender with a bit of a belling, wiping down the counter in my bar in the mythical town of Denn. A white ninja flies backwards through the doors. She runs outside and a attacks a giant red archdemon. She runs up his arm and stabs him in the forehead. I put myself into the DC archdemon and die dramatically. Now, I am in the bartender again.

The ninja walks slowly into the bar. Everyone stops and stares at her in silence.

"Give me a beer."

She pauses. "You aren't going to serve me because I am a woman? [SIZE="4"]GIVE ME A BEER!"[/SIZE] she slices a table into quarters.

Your beer is right here, ma'am.

Oh, thanks. How much.

On the house.

She takes a sip.

I leave the DC bartender, and travel into the kitchen. I create a DC cook and a demon boy helping her stir a pot. She picks him up, and scolds him. I go into the demon boy. The woman curses and says he's worthless, and he should burn in hell as she drags him into the bar. Raven stands up, and wipes the beer from her mouth. She roars, and slices the cook up into hundreds of pieces. A tear rolls down my demon boy cheek.

Raven scoops me up under one arm.

She's a demon-lover! She's a witch!

Raven bolts out of the tavern, then puts me in a bag on her back. I poke my head out of the top.

Don't worry little buddy. I'll take you somewhere safe. Raven hops on a winged horse, and we ride to steep craggy mountains, with no plant life, where you can only get to by flying. We land on ledge. There is a giant dragon nest on it. She explains to the mama dragon that humans want to kill me because I am a demon-human hybrid.

I start playing with the baby dragons. The mama seems to know this is all a game, and is playing along, but Raven doesn't recognize me at all. I don't think she realizes she's dreaming.

I wave to her.

Hey Raven!

Raven? That's not my name... is it? I am.. (she says a Gaelic name) Gwennythair (something like that). Her appearance changes to a Celtic woman with long red hair and a harp.

Are you remember past lives? I say.

Am I dreaming? she asks herself, and does a nose pinch RC.

Oh! Nomad? Oh, that's you!

Raven wakes up.

Xaphor appears.

That's another Raven, he says. She is the closest version to the one you know, and in fact the Nomad she knows is most like you.

When they go into dreams, she's a ninja, and he's a shadow samurai. She lives in Japan, and he lives in China, on their version of Earth. I don't really know what this means, but it should prove interesting.