That was...if not subtle, then at the very least a wonderfully-told image.

Thank you. I referred to it in e-mail with strange_selkie as "the dream that was too gratuitously symbolist to live," but I am glad I wrote it out. I don't think I would have liked it hanging unexpressed at the back of my mind, and I want to remember when my brain comes out with things that weird.

("At least it was a dream. At least he was asleep.")

Heh.