The third thing I remember dreaming about was the most interesting to me.
I was standing in some kind of winter landscape.
There was a icy lake, and below it there was a downhill leading to a river that had really wild, streaming water in it. This river was not covered with any ice.
I stood on the border of the icy lake, and some grass was penetrating the frosty snowgrounds.
An old man was fishing in a hole in the lake. I was watching him. He had a well-cutted beard that was white with some shades of gray in it. He looked like a nice man.
Suddenly he caught a fish, and he pulled out a huge Swordfish from the hole.
The Swordfish had brown mixed with grey colors. I remember he took it with his hands when it had came out of the hole, by its snout and fins at once.
The Swordfish was beautiful. It had those wonderful fins, and the long nose-thing, that is the reason to the name Swordfish, looked peculiarly well.
I also remember that I payed a lot of attention to its face, and I got this very sad feeling because I knew the man was going to kill it.. and I couldn't say or do anything because the man was a nice old man, and people fish all the time you know, so he wouldn't pay any attention to what I thought about catching this Beautiful Swordfish just for the killing of it. He was kind of an representation of all the common old people of citys that lie by the sea, that gets up early in the morning and likes to feel fresh air in their cheeks. And they are seen in the local store regurarly and many people know about them and say hello to them at a very regular basis. Nice, old, and fresh men.
My sadness escalated when I saw the fish's face, because I could strongly feel the desperation and helplessness in this poor creatures mind. It had lived for so many years in this peaceful lake, and then a passing, nice old man with beard would just catch it by coincidence, and end its life in a single stroke with an hammer. And it was probably the most beautiful fish many people would see in their entire lifetime, still it was caught just to be killed.
It made me kind of angry, that the nice old man did not understand that you could have a lot of hapiness inside you that would last forever just by seeing it, and that he wouldn't get the same hapiness without killing the Swordfish.
Then - all of a sudden, the Swordfish slipped from his hands, and onto the ground.
I got excited a moment because I thought that it could get into the hole again. But of course The Swordfish did not understand that, so it just kind of wiggled a few centimeters away from the hole. It looked exhausted and ready to give up everything. So I got kind of sad again, because this stupid Swordfish could of course not understand the direction of its own safety, even as it was so short away from it. I saw it's face and fins more clearly now, and all the details in it. I think it looked at me, but it didn't mean anything to it, because it had the mind of any fish, and as known they do not pay very much attention to peoples feelings. I loved its face, mostly because it was a very cute one, but not in a puppy-kinda way.. it had slimy lips so the mouth shined a bit. I thought that was very nice.
And the eyes were small, still very wide open and staring out in the air. This was also adding to its cuteness and the way I liked it.
I wanted it to at least struggle a bit, maybe the old man would panic and then grip it witouth thinking about its slipperyness, and then lose into the hole in the lake again. And when I thought this, I got eyecontact with the Swordfish, and then it felt like we had some sort of unknown agreement. The Swordfish started to struggle and wiggle on the ground even more, the old man hadn't went for it yet. He was just standing and smiling, as it had no chance of escape whatsoever, and with good reason. Of course the Sordfish wouldn't get away.
But The Swordfish got into a rythm.
The Rythm of its wiggling suddenly made it progress along the ground, towards me.
I smiled and I felt very happy from now on.
The Swordfish's movement had brought it to me with incredible speed, passing through between my legs. The old man understood that he had to be quick to get his prey, and started to look kind of despreate, yet still smiling a common old man's smile. But he couldn't not move as fast as the Swordfish.
He had to do something to keep up with its pace, to get to it.
He lied down on the ground on his stomach, and he started to wiggle his body just like The Swordfish.
It looked crazy, but it was not funny in the dream because of the excitement.
I noticed that the downhill that led to the Living River was right behind me, but that it was too bumpy for The Swordfish to get over them all, sad enough. Still there was some kind of hope in my feelings, and it was probably connected to my happiness.
The old man had gotten really close now. In fact, he now passed through between my legs just like the Swordfish had a few seconds ago.
I remember I was sort of paralyzed in my position, couldn't really move much, but that this Paralyzation was something I decided to maintain so it would be harder for the old man to wiggle pass me.
As he Wiggled out between my legs, I looked back to see him pass The Entrance of the Feet. He struggled just a little to get by, but it was really no big problem.
Suddenly I was beside the both of them.
I was no longer paralyzed.
The old man did not bother to keep his pace at a maximum level, because He knew he would catch The Swordfish anyway. I too knew, and the Swordfish also knew. It was sad to look at the Swordfish, it was stuck because of the bumpy downhill, and it looked resigned.
"Poor Old Swordfish", I thought..
- then I barely touched it with my foot, gave it a tiny push, and it was over the bump, and it slid down the hill, reaching just enough pace to get over the remaining bumps.
I was so afraid that it would get hurt along the way, it was a big fall down to the River, and fishies got tender skin, you know.
But the snowy grounds functioned like a slide to its slimy skin.
After 18 metres of downhill-sliding, It fell like 9 metres in the loose air before hitting the water, and again I got afraid because a lot of sharp rocks were sticking out from there, one could see the rocky grounds beneath the water.
But Me and the Old man saw it land safely in the streaming River below, and Swordfish swam happily along with the stream, heading for a large and very nice Sea.
It swam quickly and was extremely conatined, adding this experience to historys he would tell to other fishies in the future.
The nice old man said;
"Oh, well", looked happy enough, and took his leave.
I was very happy for The Swordfish.