Hot summer, sleepy farm hills, in a world where magic works. I'm flying with pillowy wings over the steep fields, down to the bunkhouse where we live. I look like a demon, though I'm still me inside.

The demon at the door, however, is real. But I'm used to that: he's my guard. I'm a prisoner on a demon work farm. I explain to him "I'm really a human woman under a spell" and start to kiss him, and stroke his scary head. He doesn't hit me, so I know he's convinced; male demons are too territorial to let another male kiss him like that. Maybe he knew about the spell already, I don't know.

But I'm glad he let me kiss him: for a demon kiss breaks the spell! My body shifts and melts, and within minutes I become human again.

Then a middle-aged woman enters, a woman everyone calls Halfwit, though she's not.

She frowns, and suddenly... everything changes.

The scene replays--Halfwit's about to walk in... only this time, my demon guard was the woman under a spell! It dissolved when we kissed, and he's become a human girl around twenty years old. I turn human too, but male this time. Confusing!

In walks Halfwit again... This run-through seems to satisfy her more, so this time, the dream plays on.

The ex-demon girl invites me to play poker, if I have a stake.

"Oh, I have ten or fifteen bucks."

"I have $50,000" says the girl, "but what the hell, let's play anyway." I'm happy, I want to play with her...

I get the impression Halfwit likes me, and so, despite my trivial resources, I can play with the demon girl. Affection counts more than numbers with Halfwit.

Whoever she really is.

NOTES NEXT MORNING

$50,000: me in the future? Somehow I felt sure of this when I woke, though I've always been poor. But I can change somehow.

Halfwit: who? Mislabeled by others--both wise and powerful. MY DREAMS? Who bases their financial decisions on dreams?

NOTE TWENTY YEARS LATER

Incredibly, though I only had a part-time job I'd started around when I had that dream, I DID save up over $50,000 over the next seven years, invested it according to my dreams, and spent the NEXT ten years painting and studying music, not needing to work...

That poker demon wasn't bluffing.

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