Dream #3

My fiance and I are housesitting for a friend of mine. Her house is epic in size, huge apartments the size of mansions. The paint has been bright in previous years, but is now dull and peeling.

She has a grey rabbit.

She tells us the house is 'very' haunted, and recounts a couple of sightings. The first is of someone trudging to the corner of her living room, and standing there, head hung low. The second takes place in the large surrounding gardens, viewed from her top floor. A woman with long straight sixties style hair sits naked in ferns in a flower bed, laughing. She appears to be reacting nervously to a lover not yet visible. Suddenly, her expression changes to one of fear, and holding a pale arm above her face, she screams silently as the grey hunched figure of a man takes her head clean off with a shovel. He digs underneath the body, and covers it.

She is convinced by seeing this scene re-enacted over time that there is a something buried in that area. All this seems disturbing to her, yet there is an air of putting up and getting on with things.

I get a sense that there are so many ghosts here it's unimaginable.

She leaves to go to a roof garden party nearby. Later I see her, drunk and giggling, exposing her white tights and crotch to the world.

I have to care for her rabbit while she is gone, so my partner and I take it outside. We know we must, without fail, get it out of the area completely hidden from view, as if we were to expose it near the 'grave', the ghost would rise and something unbelievably horrible would happen.

The rabbit comes adrift from the bag/paper I have secured it in, so I stop to wrap it up. I try to disguise it as a kind of wrapped bread. Somehow this is a like changing a baby, I'm coaxing and cooing to it as I do so, assuring it everything will be fine. Partner keeps a furtive lookout.
The rabbit speaks back in a soft voice, neither male nor female. Can't understand what it is saying.

Sense of encouragement and sadness in its' words.

But we know it's too late. Exposing the rabbit has already set a rising dread into motion.

The air is thick.