[Anniversary] Morpheus strikes at noon

battleaxeShotgun · Jun 22, 2015

Kirika resisted the need to bury her hands in her face as the landscape transformed. Hard, tamped-down earth transformed into rough concrete beneath her feet. A carnival sprouted in front of them like a bunch of weird, stout plants. And the ocean was back. They were suddenly at the pier.

Why didnâ€™t dreams ever make sense? And what was that bullshit about the End of the World, anyway?

â€œPlease stop talking to me about dreamsâ€”â€œ she groaned, turning around to face Adelene. The sudden maturity in her voice surprised her while she still was looking away, but her true fears were confirmed when she managed to get a look at her. Adelene looked to be about her age, if not older. They were probably even in the same year level. â€œGod dammit. No, we have never met.â€

Trahnael · Jun 22, 2015

Adelene pursed her lips before nodding and shooting Kirika a smile. "Okay."

Dreams didn't make sense indeed. One moment, she was a terrified little girl, and then for another, she was the cheerful girl from Manta Carlos, following Kirika with amusement and not fear.

She looked around, playing with the tip of her hair unconsciously. "Is the end of the world under the sea?" She was saying random things and she couldn't even stop herself. It was a dream after all. She wasn't in control, unfortunately.

Hyper · Jun 22, 2015

==> ??? > Adelene & Kirika
@"Paradox" @"battleaxeShotgun"

Unbeknownst to the two ladies, there was something watching them. Or rather, someone. It wouldn't have been a clear figure to Adelene; maybe she wouldn't have noticed at all that the figure was even there. But no, Kirika would be the first one to notice that the voice was frustratingly familiar.

"That's quite an odd question to ask, Miss Cross. Don't you think so, too, Rika?" he spoke as he stepped out from the shadow of a tree. His emerald green eyes flickered from Adelene and then to Kirika as he did.

In no way was the person's appearance imposing, no. And to be frank, he didn't look like he was older than either of the two girls. But his aura was just as intimidating as Kirika's. "It's been a while, ma cherie," he greeted her with a smile.

battleaxeShotgun · Jun 22, 2015

"... What. Are you doing here!?"

Kirika's voice lashed out at the stranger like a whip through air. Were she not with Adelene at the time, she would have gone all out on the diminutive person. Kirika instead contented herself with looking daggers down at her French fiance, her hands stiffening into half-clenched fists, all thoughts of dreams and accelerated growth vanishing in an instant.

This has got to be a dream. Please let it be a dream.

"Who told you I was here?!" Kirika demanded of him. "And stop. Just stop calling me Rika-chan," she added, the last words spoken in a sarcastically saccharine voice.

Trahnael · Jun 22, 2015

Adelene flinched at the newcomer. She only saw a shadow of a man, but she could hear him pretty well. She glanced at Kirika, figuring the image was from her subconsciousness. More than the sudden appearance, she was bothered at the girl's reaction. Kirika could be a little scary.

"'Rika-chan'?" Adelene recognized that it was a casual, too casual, way of addressing someone in Japanese. But the guy sounded French. She shrugged to herself, taking one obviously huge step back.

Hyper · Jun 22, 2015

==> ???

"Now, now, Rika-chan. You mustn't lose your temper so quickly," he said as he walked closer to the two — well, mostly to Adelene's side. He held a lock of Adelene's hair, but his gaze was on Kirika. "You have a guest, don't you? Best behavior," he said before letting go. The image was indeed from Kirika's subconscious; maybe it was how she remembers her fiance.

"Ma cherie, didn't you think that your family trusted the Dubois enough to tell me where my fiancÃ©e is?" He stated as he stepped up to Kirika. Their minor height difference was never an issue to him even as he stood in front of her. There was a smile on his face — to most people it seemed like a gentle smile but to those who know him well, that was anything but harmless. He turned to Adelene, "Do stay with us, Miss Cross. My fiancÃ©e doesn't usually have company, it's almost sad."

Emy · Jun 26, 2015

@"hyperhurricane"

Seneca Yates

"To the dream or to everything in general?" Even as he asked it, though, Seneca was shaking his head a bit. "In here, everything's fine as long as I can maintain some kind of a stable place. If somebody else shows up, I tend to avoid them because, as you've probably noticed, some people tend to become a bit unhinged."

When he looked, he saw that the corner that their third member had occupied was empty now, the mushrooms already completely disappeared. Maybe he had woken up, or had gone to a different part of the dream. "Personally, I try not to manipulate things too much. It makes my mind wander and that makes it easier to get caught up in the chaos outside."

"As for in general, I don't like going outside too much. Too many demons around these days, which would be fine in itself but some of them are too powerful for me to possibly stay conscious around." He shrugged. "At least they don't usually come by the morgue. That's something, I guess."

battleaxeShotgun · Jul 2, 2015

Kirika fumed silently inside. This was why she never took a liking to her fiance. He always treated her like some spoiled child at a fancy dinner party. Nonetheless, she acknowledged how dangerous the diminutive man could be. Now if he could stop the patronizing act and being right all the time; her family would have informed the Dubois of Kirikaâ€™s whereabouts.

She folded her arms across her chest, her characteristic glare somehow more pronounced. â€œGet your hands off of her,â€ she shot at Heisuke. â€œAnd for your information, Dubois, I donâ€™t like keeping other people company when obviously have better things to do.â€ Not including the total destruction of all dreams, she thought, cringing at her mind from ten minutes ago.

Hyper · Jul 2, 2015

@"Emy"

==> Allan Manuel.

"Well, my power actually," Allan responded. "Sometimes I get too comfortable and my control slips out. When that happens, it fades back into the nightmare until I wake up." His voice was distant as he said that, his gaze still on the direction where the sparrow had left.

He turned back to Seneca with a small smile, "As for the dream, since I could do this pretty easily, I don't have much problems about keeping others out of range," he said glancing at where Seneca turned to. Allan found it was where Seth had been but now he'd disappeared from their sight. He was probably still around.

"Ah, my case is the opposite I suppose," he mused aloud, turning back to the table where the pot of tea was left. Just as it was there one moment, the item turned into white crystals and vanished out of sight. "I have to keep the dream under my control for as much as I can; the dreams I get otherwise are horrible to even think about. It must be difficult for you though — having to worry about demons around." Allan tried to keep his thoughts on the fact that he had a "guest" — he'd guess that if he didn't, things were going to turn out badly.

"I'm mostly okay with other things now; though I get to nervous about people. There's... a really heavy feeling when you meet people and you already know how they're gonna go out one day..."

Emy · Jul 3, 2015

Seneca Yates

He hummed quietly to himself, watching as the last of the white crystals drifted away. "I wonder if there's some sort of place that all of these dreams end up at once we stop thinking about them." But Seneca didn't wonder too hard about it, because he could feel the table under him change slightly in composition. It steadied itself once he focused back on the scene in front of him.

"It seems a bit like knowing the end of a story without reading through the book first," Seneca said after a moment. "Excuse me for saying so, but maybe sometimes it isn't always a bad thing. I have no experience with divination, of course, but I suppose there can be a certain closure in knowing how somebody's story will end. Some might perceive it that way, in any case."

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[Anniversary] Morpheus strikes at noon

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