February 26, 2023

The court that we were playing basketball on was in the middle of a field. I had somehow made it through tryouts and we were playing some warmup games. Players would sit down in the middle of the court during a game whenever they felt like it, knowing full well they were in for a scolding afterwards.

I had gone back in time by a couple hours and to another part of campus. A friend was leading the way as I dragged a small suitcase up the stairs. I warned her not to go out the door at the base of the stairwell since it led to the field where my other self was. We instead ascended the tower all the way up to the roof.

We walked across the walkway to the top of the other tower which had a large tree surrounded by a bunch of chickens. My friend recalled a time when a chicken was stuck inside the knot of a tree. It had jumped into the hole before the trunk grew over the entrance and eventually swallowed the bird whole. “What a grim way to go”, I said.

I was looking around the tree when the chickens started jumping up on me in a dog-like fashion, with front legs and all. I tried to throw the dog-chickens off but there were simply too many. My friend started to climb up the old tree.