i just had the most incredible dream

it was like
the first part of a novel


there was this girl
she was like a sunflower
pretty, sweet, fairly normal


except
she was from a rich background
other than that
completely relateable
she worked with an office type place
she did computer social media stuff
she did some sort of volunteer work
with the ballet
she was still paying off a tennis trip she had taken with a really good friend
who I think was a sorority sister
her big secret
she had had an affair
years before
with a famous writer
she was dating someone, semi-seriously
everything was going along pretty well


then, one night she gets the call
from the dark and the near
it's time for her initiation


she follows this trail
that is marked with these beautiful
blue and aqua glass candle holders
so many of them
it looks like a photo shoot for a magazine
she is dressed to the nines
cocktail wear
and when she sets to the underground headquarters
there is a pause
everyone claps
she has arrived at the dark and the near


and then
they tell her
how her life is going to be now
she's moving, somewhere, France, maybe
this and that thing I don't remember
she will be working
coincidence
I don't think so
with the author with whom she had the affair
the group seems to think this is just
a huge perk
but the subtext
is
she is supposed to break up his marriage
maybe
discredit him
maybe help him
it isn't clear
but
the dark and the near
they definitely come across as
like illuminati
and this whole
go in and change the landscape
is her first initiation
but
later
she might be killing people
you just don't know
and there was so much time spent
building her up as a sunflower


it was quite a twist