On New Year's Eve, I dreamed that my best friend was going to destroy the world. After waking up, I fled back to my hometown with my two dogs.
No one believes me. Except for my border collie, who goes to the pharmacy every day and brings back a bottle of cold medicine for children.
Incense is burned in the town. There is a woman in the well with the face of a snake and the body of a snake. My best friend's eyes turned blue-grey.
Burning incense, she said, would attract the hydra. The stench of Hydra will make the whole town sick. Ordinary medicine cannot cure it.
Only one medicine works.
My border collie buys that medicine every day.
It remembers everything. And I forgot.
