I only remember one scene from a complicated dream about the unfolding of events leasing up to a future war. I think the reason I remember it was that my brain chose to replay the scene.

I was an observer and we were observing a beach that ran along the edge of some tropical shoreline. there were a moderate amount of tourists there. I knew this would be the event to kick off the looming war. since this was a replay I had an unknown person that I said, careful watching this, you may not be able to take it.

a girl in her early teens, kinda chubby, in a one-piece swim suit, was walking along an choosing her spot to sun in. she was carrying a towel and maybe some lotion or a drink. she had shortish hair parted down the center and pulled into two stubby pigtails. she picked her spot near where the vegetation began and started to settle.

in another part of the world, or maybe just that beach, she was getting watched by these two agents. they were more cartoonish than human. they had some observation scope that sorta looked like a bomb sight, but stuck into the sand and canted at an angle. it was brass. just when the time was right, they did something.

out of the vegetation where the girl was settling came something that was a cross between a tiger and the Looney Tunes' Tazmanian Devil. it was blue. this thing ripped the girl apart. blood and gore everywhere. when it was done, the only thing left was the relatively intact but bloody swimsuit, which it left there on the beach to be found.

my dream-plot was all about the Incident that was subsequent to finding the swimsuit, but I don't remember much of that at all, just the replay of that event.