A/n: Well well well, we have an intermission of sorts, just a bit of an entertainment piece. Nothing crucial to the main story, just a goof off bit. Aurelia and Liam are arguing with me presently, and I don't know what to do. Hm… This piece is for Saz and Dancing with Lightning! Special Chapter: Of Squirrels, Hilarity and Hit Women! Dream: Hey guys! How was vacation? (They look over. Aurelia looks like a lobster from sunburn and Liam is covered in burn marks.) Liam: Vacation? You had me tied to a chair in the middle of the Sahara desert! Dream: Liam, it was my sock drawer. Liam: It had the same effect! You see these? (points at burns) I got these from trying to escape! Dream: (Shrugs) I told you, I needed to work without you hounding me. I got the result I wanted. Aurelia: (fumes) Oh yeah? And what was that little stunt you pulled back there? You're going to let me be reincarnated as a squirrel? Dream: (objects) A cute squirrel. Aurelia: (voice cracks) A squirrel? Liam: (looks dumbfounded) A squirrel? Background actors in unison: A squirrel? Dream: Yes! A squirrel! I mean really, it isn't that bad. I mean, squirrels have semi-comfortable lives. You get to eat peanut butter off pinecones, how about it? And you get to sleep all winter, that's something. Liam: Yeah but you have to worry about eagles and Cadillacs with old men driving (not to mention the young men driving) and sub-zero temperatures … things like that. How would she ever survive? She wouldn't last a year! Aurelia: (sunburn pales to an eerie white. She looks like she's about to faint.) Dream: Oh well, take a risk once in a while. Where's your sense of adventure? And hey, if you don't like being a squirrel, the top-side is that he's right. You probably wouldn't last a year. Squirrel for a month or so, and then -ZAP!- You get killed by a passing big rig and come back as something else. Something better. Like a mosquito. You get to suck people's blood until you get hungry and go after the wrong person, and then BANG! No more mosquito. Being squashed only hurts for a second. Aurelia: (faints) Dream: (claps her shoulder) That's that spirit! Broaden your horizons, I always say! Liam: (tries to revive her) She's going to sick her hit-women on you! Dream: Hm? Excuse me? Liam: Yeah, you heard me. Her hit-women. Ever since you started abusing her I've been loaning her the money to get protectors. Finally they'll get to work! Aurelia: (opens eyes) Sick her! (Background actors pull off their skin to reveal two hundred hit-women in dark assassin cloaks. They all pull knives.) Dream: (rolls eyes) Oh Christ. Dream's Drama teacher( who looks remarkably like Jesus): (pops in) You rang? Dream: Sorry! No, not you… Don't fail me, please?? You're my favorite teacher... Dream's Drama teacher: Okay. 100 for the day. (pops out) Dream: (snaps fingers. All the girls turn into fluffy pillows) (Aurelia faints again.) Dream: Liam, I can't believe you gave up your salary for these goose feathers. I thought you were better than that. (snaps fingers again, Aurelia turns into a teddy bear that Dream picks up.) Okay Liam, back in the drawer. (Moves to snap fingers) Liam: No! Not the drawer! Anything but the sock drawer! Dream. Fine. (snaps, Liam becomes big soft blanket. Dream lays down on the pillows and covers herself with the blanket, squeezing the teddy bear. Dream sighs) Aah… It's good to be God. God: (pops in fuming, wearing a fluffy bath towel and covered in shaving cream) Why the hell does everyone call me at the worst times? All I do is work work work for you lazy humans! Now what the hell do you what? Dream: Nothing. (doses) God: (angry) I've about had it with you god-damn people. Lucifer was right, that son of a bitch. Now I have to sing the Oscar-Meyer Weiner song in front of the whole angel procession wearing that stupid rubber ducky suit. I hate losing bets. You know what? I give up. That's it, I'm having another flood!!! (pops out and water begins to fill the room) (Dream snaps her fingers one last time and a raft appears beneath her. As she drifts off to sleep water drowns the world…again.) The end!! Now then… what did you think?