I had this odd dream, in which a bunch of faire people and friends,
once a month, get together in the evening hours to parade down the
street in hoops. there were lots of lights and it was conducted much
like one of the doo-dah parades in pasadena.

a group of people were in front of me... they had a bunch of strange
poles all connected with some indeterminant material that basically
cordoned off another group of people who were dancing around and having
fun. I don't know why they did this cuz noone form outside the
paraade could see these people.

as we proceeded, the air got muggy but crisp, like it does right
before a thunderstorm. people started calling warnings to each other,
and you could feel static build up. then, the lightning started.
people tried to all get low, so the lightning wouldn't hit them.

in front of the weird dividers, which was in front of me, banshee was
in the parade, and the lightning hit close to him several times.
he dropped flat on the ground, but it was too late and he got hit.
it was a while before help was called because everyone waited for the
lightning to subside before moving around again. I still remember
lying flat and waiting for the lightning to stop.

after a while and ambulance was called, and dev was trying to both
co-ordinate getting the ambulance through, and also to figure out
how to absorb the PR blow this would cause to our little event.
he was standing there bitching about how this ruins our "kinder,
gentler" image that we were trying to promote with the parade.

that is all