The dream I had the night before that was a lot more sensible. Actually, it was great because it was about my character Figuro, and I love when my characters pop up in my dreams!
So to start, Figuro is at a college or otherwise educational type of setting. He's pretty happy until someone mentions something something else I can't quite recall. Either way, the end result is that he has a revelation about his father (DUN DUN DUUUUUN) and... has a pretty incredible breakdown in front of the other students. The school isn't sympathetic and decides Figuro has to be punished for "shaming the school".
I cannot for the life of me figure out exactly what the punishment entailed, because one person in the dream says one thing and a totally different thing happened... the best I can get out of it was that there was this race (like a horse race, but obviously not on horses), and somehow Figuro had to maintain distance in front of the other racers. WITHOUT A MOUNT. (Yeah at this point in hindsight pretty sure they were trying to kill him. Talk about asshole school board.) King Nox Noctis was there but he wasn't really doing anything except chatting with the school administrators and laughing at the poor kid they were torturing
Somehow at the last second he ducked under some wooden structure (a watchtower? bleachers??) he avoided being trampled by the other racers. So he didn't actually "win" the race, but evidently he was messed up/dehydrated enough that everyone was like "Okay, you're not in trouble anymore." It progressively make less sense so I'll stop there.