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A dream of a catacombe filled with antiques.

At an old château we wander the grounds to find part of the building old and in ruins, but an arch over head has a skull inbeded in it. Marking a catacombe.
We open the cellar doors and decend. Pictures of pop culture line the way. Once down in the catacombes it appears as if everything is arraged like an antique mall. Little stalls of funiture and little trinquets. I find some little fabric button looking this. One of the people with me remarks their name and starts to take them off of the index card they have been placed on. I don't recognize the word that the other person used. I ask him and he repeats it. One of those things that perhaps only exist in dreams. Vaguely French. He goes on to explain that they are little buttons that are pinned onto one's collar as decoration.
I comment that we should try to sell most of this stuff in a garage sale.
I then come across a tall dresser with a small collection of asian figurines fornicating on top. Like the ivory figurines in Chinatown, San Francisco.
Someone outside tells us that we need to get going and we all start to leave the catacombes, but I run back quickly to grab one of the figurines for Jessye. I go past the tall dresser to see if there is another little treasure to be taken and I notice that there are some small windows. Something to climb out of if the cellar doors are locked on me.
I turn back around to get the figurine from the dresser and hopefully get out before the cellar doors are locked on me. I notice another human shadow on the ground next to mine, but as I quickly turn around I see that there is no one else around. A voice that I can't make out starts to speak and I am stuck in place. A ghost in the catacombes.
I then wake with a jolt.
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