through the spiders web

i went to go visit my muse, who lived in a tall row house on the edge of a cliff (like most of the houses in my dream city). she was getting ready to go out so i waited and noticed a small yellow butterfly-flat spider was weaving a web over the entire door which i had just disturbed by coming in. the spider and several more like it were quickly weaving across that entire side of the room and the strands were so thick my muse had already hung some clothes over them to dry. i was concerned how we would get out of the room, but she just walked right through the web, breaking it but saying sometimes you have to disturb what's there.

we started walking along the back side of the city, following a map my younger brother had given me that was marked with an x graffitied on the wall of some building. (this is not the first time he's hidden stuff in the walls of buildings in my dreams) we found it and i reached through the wall to find another map, looking back to see already the x was fading indistinguishable into the other tags. this map pointed to the location of various small islands off the shore to the north and their relation to certain places and trials in my quest dreams and methods for reaching them in a faint alchemical script.

so we started walking north out of the city towards the forests, stopping briefly at my cafe so i could tell my boss i wouldn't be in to work for awhile.