Dream.
The dream started with a friendly painter/decorator doing some work in my home. And while he was here, a glazier came to fit new windows.
The glazier didn't come with any tools and was asking me and the decorator if we had any he could borrow. The decorator lost his temper with him for whatever reason and there was a bit of shouting.
He glazier then came to me and asked if I had any pliers. As I knew I had some in my toolbox, I lent those to him.
The windows were fitted and the glazier left, and the decorator then vented his feelings to me, saying how much he hates this person as he's had past experience with him. I told him that the glazier had taken the pliers I had lent him, and this fired the decorator up more.
He said he would take me to his house and we'd get the pliers back, because he knew where he lived... so off we went.
We arrived at the glazier's house. There was nobody at home. But littering the garden were all sorts of things that apparently he had stolen, and pulling them out of the grass felt like pulling out hairpins. I found my pliers amongst them.
For some reason I had to go home by train. The decorator drove me to a multistory car park in the city. I had no whereabouts here, and followed the instructions I was given: the station is at the end of the road just down there, pointing down to the street below.
I went down to the street and walked to the end. There were two doors, both wide open and welcoming.
(i) The door facing the car park was labelled "crematorium", and there was clearly some religious ceremony happening inside.
(ii) This door at right angles to it had a big staircase inside.
The buildings and the car park all kind of merged together at the end of this street so there was no other way to go. I looked up to the car-park where I was previously looking down from to ask "which way?". But what I saw as not the decorator, but a row of twelve priests in ceremonial costumes lined up along a high balcony.
Other people in the street were all going into the crematorium. Nobody was going to the stairs. The priests made some gestures to me to go onward.
I chose the stairs. The priests were stirred by my decision and stood up to look. The stairs ascended to a big room with glass block walls, with a big table in the centre. Another door then opened, and the priests shuffled into the room, and we all sat down together around the table.
Apparently I had made the right choice by choosing the stairs, and had somehow earned a place at their table. They started talking about the bubonic plague and how it was evil. The first priest spoke
"Assuming it wasn't caused by germs, then what was it caused by?" All of the priests spoke in turn, myself included giving a verdict of "evil".
The third priest to speak added some latin after his answer, which sounded like "evil. Alibus Acumen!" whatever that meant.
I think that was the end.