Guardianship

Date: 9/8/2018

I’m already forgetting most of the detail from this dream. I know that there was a man and a fey creature at the center of it all. They were contracted together, and so the fey served him as advisor and assistant. She gave him a magic edge over others. She also helped him make a contract with two magical/spiritual swords which were meant to be dual-wielded. The man was a CEO of a large company, and played off these magical gifts as technological advancements. His fey guardian was called his advanced AI secretary. His swords were still swords, but known to do what they did using a super secret technology prototype he would not share until he was certain it was stable. There was someone attacking the man’s company, I think? Or else his company was becoming collateral damage in a bigger fight? There were government officials basically treating him like Iron Man. They consulted with him, and would rely on him as a hero if needed, but generally thought of him as a loose cannon and just wanted him to be a CEO the way any regular person would. He refused. At one point, someone was hurt badly in an attack. He really did have super advanced technology at his fingertips, since his fey guardian had helped him discover/make/otherwise attain it. He used this technology to save that someone’s life. She was a young woman, and she hated most of the changes made to her. She didn’t like how her face looked, and she now had weapons and defense protocols that basically made her a weaponized cyborg. She became the man’s direct bodyguard. She may or may not have learned the truth about the fey she worked with. At another point, the fey herself was injured when the man did something reckless — I think it involved him sitting atop a barrel of explosives (he was either in a garage or on a ship’s deck at the time) and setting them all off to propel himself toward an enemy of some kind. He couldn’t save her on his own, so he decided to use a different magic to fix things. He went back in time, to when he’d first met the fey. He even de-aged as he went, probably to blend in and avoid messing up the timeline with two versions of himself. He went to a hidden area in marsh near... his grandfather’s home, I think, not his own. He “stumbled across” the fey there, and knew what to say and do to contract her. He changed the contract a bit this time, if I had to guess I’d say he probably added some line about “not being able to be harmed by the master’s actions” or another safeguard like that. Whatever he did, the agreement was sealed. I think his time travel was only one-way, tho, so he just had to live through his life again in order to get back to that day and see if his fey survived. The next time he used this ability, I think it was for making use of some kind of loophole in the fey’s magic... a way to make himself more powerful. I think he wanted to have more of her magic that e could use directly, on his own. Or he wanted a stronger contract. Or he wanted more special weapons. Or maybe he wanted immortality. Whatever it was, he learned how to make it happen and then time traveled to get things in order. He went further back this time, to long before he would ever have met his fey guardian. He became a young boy, no older than 12, sitting on the “deck” of a very old-fashioned, very ornate personal-use boat. The marshes were bigger, and needed such boats to navigate. The technology level, fashion, and emphasis on procedure were much like the Japanese feudal era — the time of shoguns and samurais and groups who still clung to the hope that magic was real. He seemed to belong to either one of these groups, or a school for warriors of some kind. He was being taken somewhere with a group of other children, two or three kids and a driver to each boat. He waited on his own boat, calm and patient, until the fey stumbled across him. He saved her from falling the water, warning her that wet wings don’t fly too well, and she decided to contract with him. He did what needed to be done to give himself more power this time. He planned to live out the time until he could build his modern company again, so... maybe it was immortality that he gained, after all? I never saw if he made it that long, or even if he succeeded in hiding the fey from others during his training — which he did need to do for some reason. I only saw him smiling on the boat and the tiny form of the fey heading into one of his long, fancy sleeves for a nap. Then I woke up. PS: He made some really good puns about his magic swords cause they had names like “sharp” and “cut” and he used them several times, but the puns and the details of when they were used escape me. I wish I remembered them more clearly.