A. Bertram Chandler - Two Can Play

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TWO CAN PLAY
Bertram Chandler
He said, “I had a funny dream last night.”
“There is nothing more boring than being told about other people’s dreams,” she told him.
“Yes. But this was an odd sort of dream. A nightmare, almost...”
“Even worse.”
“But it was - odd...”
“All right,” she grumbled, “If you must. But I’ll need another cup of coffee to give me strength to hear
about it.”
He went through to the kitchen, refilled her cup and his own, brought them back to the bedroom. As she
was taking her first sip from the fresh cup he said, “I suppose that it all started with the aphides...”
“Not again!” she complained. “You’re a monomaniac on the subject. You tell everybody how they
started on the acacia, then spread to the hibiscus, and then even began nibbling the new, tender shoots of
the ivy...”
“I don’t think they’re all the same species,” he said, “But the ones on the acacia and the hibiscus are both
black...”
“What about your bloody dream?” she demanded. “Let’s get it over and done with.”
“All right. You know that I didn’t spray last night.”
“Too well. You were belly-aching all through dinner that you should have sprayed, even though it was
blowing a howling south-easterly and raining cats and dogs.”
“Well, I should have sprayed, but I didn’t. And it sort of nagged. Weighed on my mind, you might say.
Anyhow, I had this dream...”
“Make it short,” she told him. “It’s time we were up and dressed.”
“I had this dream. The moonlight was streaming in through the bedroom window, and I saw someone
standing there in the beam of it, I wouldn’t say that she was transparent, but she was sort of
translucent...”
“She?”
“Nobody you know, darling. Come to that, nobody I knew. Until then. Her skin was a sort of pale olive
green, and it seemed to have a roughish texture. Her hair was a brighter green, with golden blossoms in it.
Her face? I couldn’t see it clearly, but I know that she was beautiful...”
She said, “You have an odd taste in girlfriends. Who, may I ask, is the original?”
“Nobody.”
“Nobody?”
“Yes. Can’t you see? — she was a dryad.”
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