I am in a large building, full of people. We are all busy organizing displays in the various rooms. I wander around and end up in a huge gallery-like room at the end of which is a door leading to the back stairway. In my walkabout, I realize that this museum is dedicated to something that I am familiar with, a fusion of the SCA and the Craft, and suddenly I become very excited.
I approach a group of people who are having a rather heated discussion as to how to proceed, and I tell them their displays should be separated in *this* way and made into two groupings. One woman begins to argue with me, but I gently redirect her to setting up the display. I also tell her that someone is waiting for me. I leave her with the others, and make my way to the back door.
Before I can reach it, a large young man intercepts me. He has curly dark brown hair, brown eyes behind large glasses, a warm smile, and is dressed in dark pants and a white shirt open at the neck. He is carrying a thick intricately carved staff, which is obviously to be displayed somewhere. He tells me that there is something in the back he needs to show me, to which I respond I was just heading there, and we head out the back door. The landing is large and is set out with about half-dozen chairs, as though there has just been a "back-room" meeting going on. Another young man is there and begins to tell me I'm not supposed to be here. I ignore him while my companion takes care of the situation.
Once this is done he takes me into a small room on the other side of the stairs. This room contains a table, a couple of chairs and many boxes of books. I know what I must do here, and am anxious to start. The books from one box lay in heaps on the table and I am struck by the cover of one pile - a Greenman. The book itself deals with the Elements.
One final detail needs to be settled. I turn to my companion and ask him ... but before I say a word, he waves me through to another door which I know leads to the library, where all these books are to be shelved. I happily pick up my first stack of the Greenman/Elements books and head towards the door.
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