A rodeo in a big oval stadium. A rodeo in trouble. At least two men down, gored or kicked by a bull. A local cop rushes out there to distract the bull. The two men roll toward the edge; either can't stand or don't dare to. Strange: both are wrapped in sheets, as if already dead.

More cattle at the far end head over, curious. We're vulnerable; the wall of the arena is broken and soon just fades away. Mountain goats and bighorn sheep wander over, too. One rams part of the surviving fence, then looks at me speculatively. I hiss and raise hands and make claw shapes, hoping he'll read me as a predator. He hesitates... but what about those pterosaurs and velociraptors and the man-size birds sweeping up the oval?

I decide I'll have to risk a tactic I'm unsure of. Flap hard, sculling with my hands, catch the air on both strokes, fore and back. It works--slowly I rise and hover. Not high, not fast, but flying.

So far, so good. But how long can I sustain it? Flight is exhausting!

But exciting too. Since everyone--humans, bighorns, birds, pterosaurs, even me--just knew I couldn't fly at all.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• Sheet-wrapped: last night I dreamed I couldn't tell if a bundle of sheets was the wrapped body of my late godmother Joan... or just laundry!
• Arena, scaly carnivores, men down: Just read Tui Sutherland's Wings of Fire. Queen Scarlet's stadium, where dragons duel to the death. In one bout, two humans die almost incidentally; the dragons barely notice, since as far as they know, humans are just vermin--animals, not people.
• Wingless yet fly: I'm going through old journals and adding short dreams to the World Dream Bank that appear to be predictive. I hadn't realized how many there were! Over the years, the sheer volume of data has forced me to shift from open-minded about ESP to facing that it's real, if baffling. Physics is wrong. We do the impossible. Dreams are wingless, yet they fly.

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