We get back to Hong Kong, and everybody goes their own way for the night. It's late, and I find myself on the street in Central, where I still have a ways to walk uphill to get home. However, I walk down the street looking for shops in which to buy traditional Chinese dried snacks (like dried mango, dried prune, dried squid). I find one, but have trouble purchasing because of what kind of money I have on me.
Well, I give up. I hail a cab, and go home.
A refresher course in the army had taken place. (This is sort of thing in Finland that those who have accomplished their national service are ordered to take a refresher camp lasting about 2 weeks. Usually you have to attend in these rehearsals 2-6 times during your lifetime.) We were sleeping in a room full of people in bunkbeds. I was sleeping next to Jussi in a lower bunkbed and our beds were arranged so that if he wants to come out of bed he has to crawl through my bed. And of course it was Jussi's time to be a nightwatch! I woke up shortly after he was awaken by previous nightwatch. It was his complaints that awakened me. He was far too tired to be awake and after he saw my eyes open he asked me to replace him. Jussi said that he will take my turn later. I didn't want to do this. I grunted "fuck that" and I turned my back but it didn't help. He just continued complaining and then he invented to pretend being slightly sick. I started to become really frustrated. After a while I figured it out that I cannot sleep anymore so that I could replace him as well. Jussi asked me to touch his forehead to ensure he has a fever. His forehead was stone cold but I agreed with him.
So I went to the corridor outside the room to indicate that some one is coming soon. In the end of the corridor there was the previous nightwatch and also a sergeant. I was little surprised that a sergeant was there because he should have been sleeping now. But then I took a look at a watch and it was almost 6AM already. I was a bit confused because this wasn't a time for the second nightwatch.
Anyways, I went back into the room and I took some clothes with me. Then I walked towards the nightwatch and the sergeant to change the rest of my clothes. There was a room next to them where I could change and where I could find appropriate clothing. However, I didn't find pants nor boots. And then several other people arrived to pick up their clothes too. They were hurry because it was a breakfast time. It was a complete mess! Eventually, I was left with my own jeans and boots. Well, there wasn't anything I could do even I knew somebody would complain about my outfit. I decided to ignore all the complaints and I stepped out of the room, in front of the sergeant.
I am supposed to find something. I have gotten a clue that is "follow the path and find the ending" with a picture of the house, which is why I am there.
Cut to ... big room like a mausoleum or a church. Vaulted, gothic ceilings and pillars. A big bed-like thing in the middle of the room with pillows, and pillows and carpets all over the floor. The building is gothic but the decor looks like the El Asqua Mosque in Jerusalem. D, H, and MC are there. There is another person, and I'm not sure if this person is male or female, but MC is rolling around on the bed with him/her and laughing. D is off by herself doing something, I don't know what. H is making loud, rude comments about whoever is on the bed with MC. I am trying to get her to lower her voice so that she isn't overheard.
Cut to house.
D, H, and I are at the house. A couple of skanky guys show up in the yard and start poking around and asking questions. They try to bum a smoke off me and I say no. They are asking questions about the house and whatever it is we are looking for. I think they are looking for the same thing, but that they are like the bad guys and will not do good with it if they found it, because if we find this thing we will know everything. The entire knowledge of the universe will pour into us and it will be bliss. D and H are there with me because I don't want this only for myself, I want to share it. I remember again the path and the clue and I start walking down it. I am carrying H and it is easy because I'm strong and she is light. D is kind of dancing around and laughing and keeps straying from the path and running back to H and I. D is skipping like a little girl; acting and looking very cute. We get down the path a ways, I am carrying a box with pictures in it--they are very old and very important. I have my French army coat on that I bought in the Albany surplus store.
It starts to rain. Slowly and then harder and harder. D is loving the rain and dancing around in it. I'm still carrying H who is also enjoying the rain. We are on a very open part of the path that is going up a small hill through a meadow. I'm not bothered by the rain but I'm concentrating on moving forward and keeping my box dry under my coat. It starts to hail. We start to run back to the car. D keeps yelling "ouch!" when hail stones hit her and she's running like hell. I'm running too, and the hail is smacking H on the head. For some reason I'm not getting hit and I kind of wish I were. We get in the car and are tired and wet and basically happy.
Then I wake up.
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