the chanters

Date: 10/22/2016

I was a small boy, sitting at the kitchen table with my older sister and mother. We had just started playing a card game, and I was sorting my cards. I sorted my cards as I always sort cards when I'm playing, dividing them first by suit then ordering them numerically. However as I got to the last suit, I realized each suit pile I had placed on the table were right side up. Each time I attempted to flip the cards face down, another pile seemed to be right side up, and my final pile was a cluster of diamonds and clubs. As I struggled to sort my cards, my father approached me from behind, announcing it was time for church. No one at the table protested, but my mother must have given him a look or something, because he sighed and told us to finish our game and he would see us at the church. After he left, we were distracted from our card game by a voice outside. We did not go outside, or move from the table, but my perception moved outside. The remainder of the Dream was like I was watching a movie almost. A voice called from the west woods, a warning they were coming. And from the north east a group of people slowly emerged. First I could see them in the distance, then they were gather around the tree that had been uprooted. In the front of the group was someone much shorter, the height of a child. They began chanting, and then a voice rang out announcing "I banish thee in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour." After the voice, the crowd were wearing white robes. I caught sight of one mans face, and noticed he had thick black eyebrows, and a thick black mustache (the kind of mustache that yosamitte Sam from looney toons has) The crowd continued chanting and approaching until I woke up screaming.