oh! i had a weird dream... I'll have to try and write it down when i. wake up again, but. i was living in a...colony? it was like in a ship underground where these awful fire birds lived and elders of the community knew how to keep them from attacking us mostly (probably by sacrifice) but we had to stay underground with the birds because out in the world were actual dragons who the elders didn't have under control. but someone from a ~school of magic~ (i know i know) discovered us and got inside and took me away to learn magic and as soon as i got outside i discovered that all of the dragons had been dead for years, their skeletons were lying around. i wanted to go back in and tell everyone it was safe to come out but my recruiter was like "nope sorry prime directive, gotta let these people discover this shit on their own and btw you can never talk to your family again"
tbc? i Need to go back to sleep
anyway, in the dream i was sixteen or so and starting magic school much later than most of the other students who (a la hogwarts) started at age 11. the person who recruited me had one other person to pick up, a girl they thought i would really like a lot. they kept teasing me about how this would be my girlfriend but when we met her she was so beautiful and elegant i felt like a very smol dorky kid next to her. like i literally shrank and became goofier when she was around, though everyone kept trying to convince me that it was all in my mind and they all perceived me as a cute guy.
once we got to the school, me and the other new students had a meeting with the headmaster where she asked us what we would all like to focus on. in this magical school you could major in all different subjects including english or math or cooking and become a well-rounded individual. it was a liberal arts magic school. i didn't know what i wanted to focus on because i couldn't stop thinking about the colony i had been rescued from and my family and friends who were still stuck there. i started talking about this friend of mine who was two years older who would send me on jobs, fetch quests, basically, because of some secretive thing he was doing. i had the feeling he was trying to escape to the surface but it was forbidden to leave the colony so i didn't ask him about it. he had a sister who i liked.
when he was supposed to graduate from high school, he was actually barred from graduating with everyone else but he didn't find out until the ceremony so it was very embarrassing. and nobody said why. then he suspiciously came down with pneumonia which there was no cure for but me and his sister were able to break into the secret medical area where they had forbidden medicine and cure him. after that i think he got out but i never knew what happened to him. i guess i assumed he was eaten by dragons but he must have discovered all of the dragons were dead. anyway, i figured the elders had purposefully given him pneumonia and withheld the cure to punish him for trying to escape and if they figured out me and his sister had stolen the cure we would probably be in a lot of trouble. so that's what i was preoccupied with and i couldn't pick a major in magic school.
i think that's where the dream wrapped up or transitioned to something else. and there were more dreams this night but i can't remember them anymore.