8/10 night dream:

[amichan]

Lucy Lawless looking woman was talking to me (whoever I was/am is male), more like arguing with me about something I was supposed to be doing, that sounded important but also boring, and to my mind there were other people who could deal with it. When I walked off while she was talking she threatened to send people after me to bring me back but I was basically ‘whatever’ and she did, but apparently whoever I was could easily evade said people by doing something and slipping down part of the building, which was really tall, and it wasn’t like I was going down the outside, but apparently given it was tall, part of the way it was built meant that there weren’t regular full floors in some places, and you could slide down the inside of certain column-ish bits, which is what I did, using some sort of magic or power that involved this sort of snaking black energy from one arm.

I recall from some later part of the dream that the energy when stored manifests along the body like tattoos, and it can apparently be divvied up among people because there was some other bit about having ‘spread too much’ among people rough things can happen and it needs to be recharged, or found somewhere, depending. (Makes me wonder if it could be syphoned from other people). I know it could also be turned into weapons, or thrown as darts or things like that based on other snippets from the dream that I can recall.

At one point there was a bit with another guy and someone I recognized in the dream as Caurann (K) and something about someone being pregnant. The guy was bragging a bit about something and she and I were just between each other going shussh with our eyes. I had this bit briefly in my head where there was running in to him and someone else, and him being all this one is mine, and this one is mine, and there was a bit of no, you just think that. They're not that enamored. 

And there was another point of just laying on a bed cuddling with, I think, whoever Caurann (K) was. 

I'm not sure any more on the chronology of any of these things, or what the fighting bit was that meant that swords or dagger bits were needed.