Our friends, Chloe and Eric Scott make dinner for us; dessert is pineapple dipped in rich hot chocolate sauce. Eric dips some of the rich chocolate sauce unto my plate. -- shift: (vivid) We talk with a carpenter who looks like Patrick who looks like Father Andrew about rebuilding our house, which is falling apart. I am awed that our priest would come to do such manual work. He assures me that I have nothing to worry about. -- Back with Chloe and Eric we are sitting at dinner with others and I ask to be heard: I say: "Our government used to be a democracy, but now it is a police state." People clap for me! -- shift: I see a huge, furry cat, said to be very mean, sitting next to an Indian who has a dog.