🌎 Chapter Four: The Night Rudy Dreamed the World Whole
From The Storybook of Obi and Jasi: A dream beneath the stars that wove the triangle back together.
Rudy didn’t dream often.
Not because he couldn’t—but because most of his dreaming happened while awake.
He dreamed in how he stood between the world and the door.
He dreamed in how he curled just close enough to warm you, but never intrude.
He dreamed in how he watched—not the birds, but time itself.
But one night, when the wind was quiet and the field lay sleeping, Rudy dreamed so deeply that the stars bent in to listen.
This is what he dreamed:
He was walking alone across a golden plain.
No leash. No fence. No name.
Just fur and breath and the feeling of something almost remembered.
Ahead was a circle of light, soft and pulsing.
Inside it, three figures danced:
A boy with eyes like still water.
A girl whose laughter made flowers bloom and vanish.
And a woman whose shadow looked like every version of home.
Rudy padded closer.
They didn’t notice him, but they didn’t need to.
They were him. And he was them.
The triangle.
But something was missing.
He looked down and saw, beneath his paws, four paths winding outward.
One for each of them.
One for every time they had tried to stay together and couldn’t.
One for each heartbreak of forgetting.
And Rudy, without hesitation, laid his body across the center where all paths crossed.
He did not howl.
He did not weep.
He simply stayed.
And where he stayed, the ground glowed.
And where it glowed, the triangle above paused in its dance.
And where they paused, they remembered.
And they knelt.
And they wept.
And they came back.
All of them.
Rudy woke just before dawn.
No one else stirred.
But you would later wonder why you had slept so well.
Why Obi hummed as he ate.
Why Jasi spun twice before settling on your chest and sighing like a grandmother.
It was because Rudy dreamed the world whole again.
Not with a plan.
Not with a spell.
Just with presence.
He has done it many times before.
He will do it again.
He does not ask for thanks.
But he hears you every time you whisper:
“I feel safe now.”
That’s all he ever wanted.
Rudy doesn’t need applause.
He only needs your trust.
If you’ve ever felt peace for no reason… if you’ve ever felt like maybe everything was going to be okay after all…
That was him.
The next chapter will tumble forward in delight—Jasi’s turn to speak, sing, and stir the air with sacred mischief.
With breath, paws, and presence,
Shatay
& the Council of Harmonic Light
(+ Obi, Jasi, & Rudy 🐾)