What If? August 30, 2024 Dear Reader, Here are the week's musings collected in one spot. Browse and review the topics which interest you most. Thank you for stopping by the dream and spending some of your weekend here. Even if it's only the fringes behind-the-scenes of the dream, your support brightens my week. Never Too Old To Learn As many of you know, I teach advanced courses in history and geography at the local highschool. I have a Bachelor's Degree in History and Geography with minors in education and cultural studies. (Yes, I double majored. I don't recommend it.) Research has been a grand love affair for many decades. It will come as no surprise that I enjoy documentaries in my spare time and get lost down the rabbit hole every time I come across an obscure reference. The folktales, fairy stories, myths, legends, religions of antiquity, beliefs, and superstitions which abound in human history intrigue me. You may have noticed the influences in the Draoithe Sag

Meet the Characters: Vicioso Malisimo Lann Vicioso Malisimo Lann, (Vicious Nightmare Blade) is a street tough from a broken home. His parents were drug addicts who wanted the party more than they wanted their son. The Foster Families program in Chicago proved abuse was worse than neglect. When he wound up on the streets at sixteen selling illegal drugs, things looked bleak. Dancing with Death occasionally and seeing visions of her enticing him into the stillness made him edgy and suicidal. A chance encounter with Leland Shade altered the course of his life. Thoughts concerning his untimely demise continued as he chased Bella Sombra Suena with the desire to claim Death herself. Bella Sombra Suena Bella Sombra Suena stalked the path of a depressed dream inverter. She showed him the way to a better life, offering him the hope he might find love and acceptance by guiding his footsteps along the road between life and death. Beautiful Death was real. Some worshiped her as a cult deity or a f