I'm on an airplane, with my daughter Amber. We have a room in the back of the plane, larger than would make sense. I am carrying Amber in my arms, and the plane has stopped temporarily, on the runway, so I get up and walk around. I open the airplane door to see where we are, and it seems like the plane is taxiing slowly on the runway. Amber stands in the doorway with her left hand on the rim of the door to hold herself up (standing better than she can IRL), but sways a little as if losing her balance, and I catch her from falling out. I'm not entirely sure that if she did fall out, if she would just land on the ground a few feet below, or maybe we really are are high up, and she would just disappear into oblivion.

I take her back to our seats, which are more like couches, where a few women have made themselves comfortable. One is my cousin Shelly, and I offer Amber to her, saying "Would you like to hold her for a minute? I'm just going to check on my brother."

I hand Amber to Shelly and go out of our room in the back of the plane, through a door into the main cabin. Just a few rows forward is my brother Steve's seat, where he is sleeping against an unfamiliar girl, the implication being that they made some sort of deal that they could find comfortable spots with each other, a little more intimate than strangers would normally be. He wakes up, and I ask him if he needs anything. He says he might like a painkiller, he has a bit of a headache, and it's always like this, where he can't quite decide if it's enough pain to take a pill, but it's bothering him. I say sure I have all three over-the-counter pain medicines in my bag, and I start digging through it. But everything is chaotic and disorganized, all the pills are in individual little blister packs, and mixed up with a bunch of riffraff. Not only are there several zippered pockets in my bag that I have to look through, but there is another smaller bag in there with more zippered pockets. I find one Aleve, and offer it to him.

I'm anxious to get back to Amber before the plane takes off again, so I step back through the door, and find myself outside in an unfamiliar country. It's more like a train station than an airport, more like a park with a train platform, everything made of wood. The people appear to be asian, and the script is something I don't recognize, although there is a name of the park written in English script, somebody's name. Where am I, and how do I get back to Amber?