Dream of alternate WW1

I just kept the original dream log as it was the day I wrote it, so sorry for any punctuation or spelling errors. I was half asleep.

Dream:
There is this young man who is of good society living in what might be the Victorian era of some unknown country. Seems like Britain. He is with his mentor, father figure and butler. Interesting thing about these two is that they both cannot die, and nor do they age. I’m not sure if they know this yet or not, however.

The young man, we’ll call him Brian, boards a train and his butler, we’ll call him Joseph, greets him and introduces other people in the train car to him. Apparently he was an anticipated passenger to many of these high society folk. They ask him about his great adventures in the jungle, of the other world (not sure, but it could be America), etc, during his time in the military as an officer. He chats with them, but upon seeing a woman, we’ll call her Flora, he becomes immediately drawn to her. However, during this meet and greet, she’s already met another fellow.

As time goes on, in this dream, we come to learn that Flora had fallen in love with that other dude, and Brian had to be content with her friendship. So he becomes a friend of the family as well as a good social asset to Flora’s husband. Flora has her children, they grow into young adults, and Flora is looking old. She asks Brian why he looks the same as the day she met him, as does Joseph. He tells her he doesn’t understand it himself, but that, they don’t seem to be able to age for whatever reason. She warns him that, while she still will forever hold him in her heart, that he must leave because talk has been circulating that he’s sold his soul to the devil, he is the devil, he’s not human, etc.

Brian becomes angry at this news and curses the whole city, declaring that he wished their “filth would be washed away”. Later that evening, a storm brews up in a crazy-small amount of time and floods the city, damaging many buildings and killing many people. He finds Flora, her husband already drowned, in a shelter with others who fled the soaked ruins of the city, and takes her back to his home, bringing a doctor along the way from the shelter. He threatened the doctor’s life if he didn’t comply, though by taking away the doctor, Brian realizes, he’s in affect, sentencing many unattended victims to die.

In the end, Flora contracts a fever and there isn’t much the doctor can do for her. Interesting little bit about this world: It’s reminiscent of reality, but, at the same time many things are off. For example, WW1 never happened because Germany and Britain didn’t seem to want to go at it just yet. (although there were hostile tensions) As a result of so many wars having never taken place, things like penicillin, fever reducers (more of a 1930’s thing, admittedly) were not invented because whatever chain of events that had occurred in reality in order for certain things to be invented had not taken place yet. Flora passes away and so Brian grieves for her for many days. During this time, Joseph goes out to find Flora’s daughter to tell her what happened, only to find that she also died of something similar. The woman had two young children, a boy and a girl. The only survivor of the three was the young girl, who he brought back to their home so she would no longer be an orphan.

The young girl, we’ll call her Adalia, grows up with them and about 20 years goes by. The scenery now looks like it could be the 1950’s. Adalia loves to swim at their beachfront home. The thing about this ocean is that it is fairly warm looking and extremely clear-blue. But when the sea turns a little green, people know to stay out of the water. Brian warns her that the water is turning green and that she should stay indoors for the day. He’s going out to do whatever. As he’s getting ready to leave, he hears the sudden crack of thunder and when he looks out the back window, realizes the sea is rising to an alarming level. He also realizes Adalia is out there and has to swim out there to get her back. She’s drowning when he finds her, but when he brings her back he manages to get most of the water from her lungs.

But, for whatever reason, she also catches a fever and this brings up old memories of when Flora died. Because Brian and Joseph have dislocated themselves from time for the most part, they don’t realize how simple it could be to cure Adalia. They really haven’t paid attention to the world in the past 50 years. He runs out to get a doctor, not really sure where he should go to get one, when he sees the word “Drug” on a building. He goes inside, asking for a doctor. The weary clerk explains to him that there are no doctors in a pharmacy/chemist and that if he wants a doctor he needs to go to a hospital, which is 10 miles away. Brian explains that it’s urgent, that someone could die, but he stops short when he sees all the boxes of pain relievers, fever reducers, and decongestants. He asks if the fever reducer would cure her fever, and the clerk tells him yes.

So he brings back this “miracle”, as he sees it, and Adalia takes it. By modern standards, her fever was perhaps not all that horrible. And then he realizes, if only he had had these drugs when Flora was sick, he could have saved her. This part doesn’t really make much sense, but apparently, because he is so dislodged from time, he can freely travel through it. I’m not sure. But he manages to go back to the very beginning of the dream, when he’s boarding the train in the old city. Except the problem here is that Joseph isn’t on there, because he didn’t go back with him I guess, and that no one on the train recognizes him so they won’t let him on.

He yells out that the train is on fire through some kind of megaphone system and everyone begins to freak out and evacuate. I’m not really sure if he reunites with her again, if he stops her from meeting her husband, or what but, because he did this, through some chain of events, people thought the Germans were attacking from within, or something, and he somehow managed to incite WW1.