Chapter+09

media type="custom" key="3909459" Characters: Littlest, Thin Elderly, Another dream-giver, Strapping, Another woman Summary: Littlest was half asleep in the Heap. Thin Elderly was talking to another dream-giver about Littlest. She said that it was her curiosity that interferes but that curiosity was a good thing. Littlest had thought about how Thin Elderly let her touch the woman's dishes and how Fastidious never let her do that. In another Heap a drowsy young dream-giver named Strapping was thinking about dishes he had touched tonight. His territory was assigned as kind of a punishment for not being attentive on his duties. It was not a good assignment and not a location that lent itself to happy dreaming. During his visits he had searched for pleasent fragments and sometimes found them. Strapping was surprised by the dishes because he had been taught they are fragments of happiness. Instead, the womans dishes were fragments of sorrow and regret. Strapping ignored all the unpleasent things and went to a shelf with a seashell on it. When he touched it, it brought back a great memory of a breeze with sunshine and a childs laugh. Strapping gathered those and all the other pleasent things of the shell for a dream. He felt all of those things slide out of him and he added the name of the boy, John. Strapping loved seeing how happy the woman was when she recieved her dream and knew that his work was done for the night.