You know what, I don't even care. I'm just about to grad. What seemed impressive before now pales in comparison to the one I want to get to. Ahem. I eventually traced that floating shadow thing all the way to this other place that was only accessible by portal which I had a whole bunch of friends and even a fellow winged one help out getting through though a lot of them got fucked. Jungle realm identical to the one with the joint dream where a lot of people were killed. Home realm sort of, and the whole place filled with roaring shadows. That is apparently where that magical university from before was located, and there was this big plot to replace THEM as a sort of last resort effort, and I had to do a whole lot of tap dancing with a bunch of conceited bratty magical discipline representatives to stop being faggots and finally kill the replacers off. Immediately after it we found who was responsible, a fellow vampire actually attempting to be rid of Remilia, and I organized a raid party of my only dream powerful friends and then a few people I've seen multiple times in dreams recurring as cameos and we busted into his place and monster hunted him up nice and good with WEAPONS of probably divine or blessed description while Remilia loled. We tried to do something for my birthday because I was getting a little tired of being Remilia's minion but we ended up getting interrupted by some horrible thing chained away in the back room that we wanted to go into and had to spend the rest of the night shoving it back in. Then I had the dream I will detail FULLY next and finally I questioned whether it was really love or loyalty driving me forward for the first time I think ever and immediately afterwards Remilia and I got quality time which devolved into unbearable cuteness, horsing around, snuggling, sappiness, various entertainment, the works and I went “oh yeah I'm totally smitten with this girl” and felt great all day from it for the first time again in a good long while, getting my much needed dose, which was weird because like before, I was depressed as all hell before going to bed. Seems after getting wrapped up in RIL concerns and fading into the material world it takes me to phase past my normal level of stress and depression into the level where I stop caring and to escape it all I go back to being all metaphysical and living in dreams again. Takes a kick to the pants I guess but now I know why all that dance of the red moon music worked.