I dreamed that Bones was actually a witch. See, the wizarding schools in America had all been closed for decades, and when the UK realized this, Hogwarts set up a school for adult beginners, and Brennen got her letter.
It wasn't that she wasn't brilliant, but the lab she solved crime in, and her multiple degrees, were an unconscious magical projection that even she believed in. As she learned to control her magic, the lab coats and machinery all disappeared, leaving a thin 20-something woman, popping her gum and wearing short shorts and a yellow and orange hoody with teddy bear ears.
So we all went to an amusement park in the heart of London. My best friends and their two boys joined us, and we played a game that was like skee ball with bean bags and slingshots. Certain targets on an old Victorian haunted house were worth different points. The weather vane was worth the most. After every round, a big scraper would clear out the bean bags. The older boy was climbing on the contraption, and before we could scold him off of it, the scraper started. It knocked him down into the bean bag hopper, but a man standing nearby jumped forward and snatched him out before he could be crushed. We were so grateful.
We all took the tickets we'd won and went to do something else. We ended up at a Disney Robin Hood live reenactment, that had gotten mashed up with the Bugs Bunny What's Opera Doc reenactment. And there were also some swans. We watched that for a while, then we went to play this game where you used safety ropes to navigate around the walls of the attic in my grandparents' old house. One person would have to hug the walls and attach the rope to the next tie off point, so everyone could follow, holding onto the rope, and not fall through the holes in the floor.
After that, we went and rested in the trivia room, where you could win tickets by being the first to answer questions correctly. I don't remember the questions, but the first answer was J K Rowling, the second was Maya Angelou, and the third, which I was the first and only person to guess, was Willa Cather.
Then we took our tickets to get prizes, and I wanted to use mine for some tadpoles. There was a big tank, with tadpoles and goldfish, and the tadpoles were colored like bright guppies or betas, showing what color frog they'd grow into. There were red-orange ones, and green ones with a distinctive brown and cream stripe on their sides, but those grew into salamanders. There was a weird, pale yellow sort of water lizard that looked like a skeleton with skin and find. But I really just wanted a blue frog tadpole, and spent hours trying to catch one. The sun went down, and the lights shut off, and I couldn't see the colors any more, and then I woke up.
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