I was in mom's most recent room (at the top of the stairs and to the left) at grandmamma's house, and it had grown to be very large, about 40 feet square or so. I'm not sure exactly what was going on or how it started, but after a very short amount of time there were these beings in the room called "Rogues."
These Rogues basically angelic in form, but I knew that they were evil at heart. They were all circled around the room, and there were supposed to be thirteen of them. I didn't count, but I just knew how many there were. They had white feathery wings, and their faces were stretched back towards the back of their heads. They all had these huge grins on their faces, and their mouths stretched back along with the rest of their faces so that the corners of their mouths were back by their back molars. Their teeth, though very white, were very sharp and ragged. Their noses were flat, and their eyes were white and glowing. Their eyes were also stretched back a good bit, making them hardly more than slits with bright white light shining out from behind them. Their hair was strange. It was almost like a cartoon. It was black, and it was supposed to be in dreadlocks or long Pollyanna type curls, but they were all too perfect in shape, and looked more like cylinders than curls or dreads.
They all stood around in a giant circle, staring blankly, yet intently, at the floor in the middle of them. It was like they were just waiting for something, but not really looking at anything or for anything. None of them acknowledged my presence, and part of me was glad.
I decided to leave and go get Em, my wife, to show her these Rogues. I left the room and turned left, as if I were going to go into my old upstairs bedroom. There was no door on that room, and as I went in, it looked more like a large lobby to a skyscraper type of office building or hotel than a bedroom. I went forward, and there was an elevator there.
I opened the elevator doors and went in, but it was weird. Rather than getting into the elevator car, I was supposed to reach up and hold onto the top edge of the outside of it and ride it by hanging on. As I grabbed hold, the whole car skewed to about a 45 degree angle (so it looked more like a rhombus than a rectangle) away from me so that I was kind of laying against the leaning surface, and the elevator started to head up in that same angled direction.
I started out on the second floor of the house, but this elevator "only" went up to the ninth floor. I had to get off there and take the express elevator up to the 47th floor where Em was staying. When I got up to that floor, there were a bunch of young women (college age) running around in the halls and having a fit because I was there. Evidently this was supposed to be like a women's college dorm or something, and technically I wasn't allowed in there. I went straight ahead down the hallway, ignoring all the upset women, and turned right. After going about halfway down that hallway, I turned left into Em's room. I think the door was already open. I grabbed Em's hand and told her she had to come with me to see these things.
We were suddenly back downstairs in the middle of mom's expanded room, and the Rogues were still standing around as before. I'm not sure if Em said something or if I suddenly just realized, but I came to understand that Em couldn't see the Rogues at all, although I'm not sure that she didn't believe me.
As I started walking around the Rogues, looking at each one, but none of them looking at me, I started to realize other things. First, a small number of these Rogues (less than half, so maybe five or six) were stapled by their wings to what appeared to be poster board. To the right (my right, their left) of each of these few Rogues, they had copies of themselves standing next to them and stapled to the same piece of poster board. The copies were facing in the exact same way as the originals, looking at the same spot in the middle of them all.
Another thing that I realized was that these copies and the poster board was invisible to all the other Rogues in the room. Even the ones who had copies didn't know any of the others had copies. So for every copy, there were only two people who knew that they were there: that Rogue that it belonged to and myself. I somehow understood that these copies were there for the benefit of the Rogue it belonged to, and was going to help them in overthrowing the other Rogues, although I'm not sure in what way or how two could over throw thirteen plus another four or five unknown copies.
The third thing that I realized was that these copies were not yet endowed with any sort of mental capacity. They were just physical copies. They were known to me as "copies" and not "clones" because a clone could be seen as being a mentally and spiritually complete clone of the original Rogue. They were under complete control of the Rogue to which they belonged.
Upon realizing all of these things at once, they all started to move. The Rogues and their secret copies started circling the room, and then after a moment they started leaving the room through the wall that would be at the "front" of the house. They left in single file form, except for those who had the copies of themselves. They, of course, left in pairs since they were stapled to one another via the poster board.
As they left the room through the wall, I saw that a door had opened in the wall and led to a transparent walkway or stairs that curved up slightly and to the left. The wall became mostly transparent to me, and I could see a world of clear columns, pagodas, temples and such that they were leaving into. Everything in that world was transparent, seemingly made of glass.
As they walked up their pathway/stairs, I think I got the impression that they were boarding a pirate ship that they had come in on, although I don't recall actually seeing one.
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