Chapter one –
Two boys and a girl, they’re young, the oldest is 10-ish. They’ve been left in jungle-type area to fend for themselves. They’re sleeping outside, eating what they can find, they start avoiding contact with people. Maybe because they fear they’ll be taken home, maybe because they fear to be split up.
Chapter two –
The kids find a run down cottage, they can’t get into it. By now the oldest is 12 or 13, they can fend for themselves just fine, and they’ve got some outside shelter. The area they’re in, it doesn’t rain too much. There’s been no contact with people at all for a long time now.
Chapter three –
Another kid has joined the group, a boy of around 5 or so. The children, unable to find a way into the cottage and unwilling to draw attention to themselves have been sheltering beneath it, as it’s slightly raised off the ground and has a hollowed out area underneath.
Chapter 4 –
The oldest is now around 16, and used to taking care of the younger kids, another young child has joined the group and they’re doing as well for themselves as they can, not brilliant, but they don’t know any other way. One of the younger children breaks into the house and goes through the stuff. The house which is now inhabited by an old man.
Chapter 5 –
The child is found in the house, after some debating, authorities are called and the kids are, in their own words, “rescued”, and the dream ends.
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There were other bits. One of the kids planted a load of palm leaves by the road, for some reason, partly leading towards their rescue. The group had gotten fairly big near the end, a good five or six kids. The older kids taking care of the younger ones, no fighting within the group, that I noticed.
The ones who were young at the beginning of the dream aged appropriately, but never hoped for, or even wanted to really be rescued. They’d been abandoned too young and simply knew no other way to live.
The dream was clearly split into five chapters. I don’t know why they didn’t find the house to begin with, maybe they were in a different area, maybe they simply weren’t looking. Chapter five was titled “The Rescue” but I don’t know what happened to them afterwards.