A long sleep and some heavy dreams.

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I slept well, just not for long.  I was warm enough, or could stay warm enough, so it wasn't that.  I went to bed early and still woke very late.  In that over-sleep period I had some serious dreams.

In the first of the two, I was a king of sorts.  A king is the lord of an area or country, not of everything or many things.  I was not an emperor.  What land I ruled I could not say, though it wasn't a rulership as humans would know them, not yet.  My domain covered both space and time in a manner that humans aren't even comfortable discussing... yet.  Also, with me, was a queen, or several.  I can't remember the details.  She, or they, were in a variant of time and space as well.  I was not sure if the various seeming women were all one woman, locked in some point of one woman's life, but freed in another.  It's complex.  I understand the possibilities, I am simply not sure how to describe them.  Oh, fine, I'll give it a shot.

One possibility is that all my queens where one woman, but from different times in her life.  There where three or four, that I remember from the dream, though there might have been others.  Imagine if a woman pledged to wed, as a maiden, was frozen in time.  Then, other than that part of her, the rest was allowed to age.  At certain times in her life, say after marriage but before children, then after several children are born, then after she may no longer have children or right before her death, pieces of her are again frozen in time.  These, then, are allowed to become my wives, my queens.  Advisers?  Lovers?

Either they were all one woman or they were aspects of various women.  I just wasn't sure, as a waking dreamer.  In the dream I seemed to understand, I just never contemplated it fully, so can only guess.

I was similar and yet different.  I could be any of me from some time, gone back to and unfrozen to live for as long as needed, but as I willed it.  Sometimes my duties demanded youth, for war or hunting or fathering.  Sometimes more wisdom was needed.  Sometimes, often, without exacting needs, which of my time stops were lived was simply a personal choice.

In any case, I ruled and probably ruled that portion of reality from then on.  What is it that I did?  I don't know.  It was an inactive time.  I was merely living out my life, contemplating various things, and enjoying the company of my queen(s).  You have no idea how complex it got.  This is just some of the minor vagaries.  I literally have no words or methods for some of the other things, even on light-duty.

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The next dream saw me being asked to do favors for the state, the US government.  Essentially I became a special operations federal marshal.  Some of what I did was create a top training school for special operators, which also acted as a temporary barracks, storage depot, and some other things.  It was quite a gig.

I stated, straight up, that I would not become a black booted thug, and would fight any decree or man who attempted such.  I would only fight for the good of Americans and America.  Although to those ends I would take risks and make hard choices and do those things, even at great risks.  This was understood and accepted.

It was like... being in a grown up candyland, on the best playground for warriors, with the best equipment, time, and space, to perfect various modern, mechanized, martial, surveillance, and other arts.  While training, I searched for moles and politically evil actors and eliminated them from my program and even from military or police units from which they were derived.  It's not even a tight call, for many.  They just shouldn't have access to weapons, state powers, or such.  I even created a position for a man to oversee my actions.

Dogs, guns, various methods, various ranges, various methods of transportation, and of course cross training.  Not everyone can learn to pilot a helicopter, but several should know how to do enough for emergencies, not everyone can be a sniper, but beside those teams I wanted backups in the units, etc.  Muslim training grounds in the US, then in our sister nations, then back to over there.  Just taking out the ones that were taking trouble up, over there.  All in North America, however, were to be eliminated... as with the politicians who were covering for them.  Three... two... one.

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A tough morning.  Just slept too long.  The back and ribs can get a bit tender from such.  It was worse first thing, is better now.  I might take a dose of anacin, haven't touched the stuff in a long while.  Later.