I've got no way to reply ICly to the dream part of your post just yet, but I may think of something(more concretely than the random squiggles floating round about in my head) yet. But I just wanted to say that I rather liked it. Yerp. 

Also, ha! Matiir's actually not being a butt in this post. He might wind up being a really big butt in the next post, but oh well, you take what you can get, eh wot? :P 

Oh man, I was reading too much Redwall this weekend.