Oct. 26th, 2001

austin_tycho: crater (Leafy and dark)
So I had this dream. I'm in a big crowd of people, a bunch of friends, in some public place. I was nervous, but not really sure why. I find out, though, because some Taliban guys with guns grab me and drag me off because I was not wearing a burqua. The group I was with was terrified and did nothing to interfere. I was dragged along corridors for what felt like hours, with one guy dragging me along, and another holding a hand over my face so people would not see it. It being shameful and all. When I struggled, they'd hit me in the stomach with the butts of their guns. So I concentrated my efforts on trying to catch the eyes of people I was being dragged past; my head is bigger than their hand, and they couldn't pay as much attention to whether my face was visible as they were trying to drag me through crowds. Anyway, whenever I could catch an eye I'd mouth the words 'Help me! Help!' but everyone who saw my plea just turned away, frightened. I finally was shoved into a waiting area. I remember seeing on the news what was going to happen next. I would be made to wear a burqua, covering every inch of my body including my eyes, put on a ship with a big flat deck (like an aircraft carrier) with hundreds of other women and shipped off to Afghanistan. It was like a slave ship, except instead of the hull we all had to stand on the deck of the ship. Lots of women were usually lost on the trip over as waves would crash across the deck in high seas and sweep some of them off into the water. A few more died of exposure, and a few more died of starvation. But, you know, they're just women so no big deal. It made for interesting news bites- nice shots of these ships pulling out of dock, with swarms of these faceless creatures that looked like ghosts crowded on them. They weren't recognizable, so no one really cared about them. Hell, they didn't even look human- you couldn't see arms or legs or faces, just long drapes of stifling cloth. Of course, the ones that made it got to live in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. *shudder*

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