Action: but you never tire of dreams

[ofthebeast]

Characters: Any willing dreamers
Open? Yes
Where: In your minds
When: After the party
What: Part two of the dream plot!
Warnings:


The party went on, with the beast's head on display. A proud, twisted thing. Behind false ruby eyes, it waited. And as the music became slower and the wine less plentiful, it waited still.

Those who had gazed upon it at the ball. Those who had seen it once living in the forest. All heroes who dared to look upon its face and dream still that they would be able to live another day...

There are all sorts of ways of living. In waking. In sleep. Perhaps, now, they would find one in between.

(ooc: Feel free to keep tagging into the party post! Once your characters go home and go to sleep of their own accord, that is when the dreaming will begin. Remember, it is up to you to set up what kind of world your character is trapped in and how best to help them. Plotting post is here, make use of it!

The beast's power will wane once the bulk of the dreamers have escaped his curse. If your character was not at the party but you still want to involve them in the dream plot, that is fine! They can either help get people out or have seen the beast wandering in the woods before it was killed and have caught its attention that way.

Comments

[for_that_i_run]

The smile on the face of that man as he punished Loki for his... Loki? Was that him as a child? He was such a cute mischievous little guy.
And his Father, for that must really have been who the taller man was, really seemed to enjoy the prank. The poor guy couldn't keep a straight face about it at all.

Watching this scene actually made Eagle a bit homesick himself. How many times had similar situations played out between him and his Father?

[bittyfun]

The guards are dismissed, and so is Loki, and Loki makes his way out of the throne room, playing at solemnity though a smile still flickers in and out of being around his lips.

He runs into Eagle, and he freezes.

Something is wrong, he thinks. Something isn't as it should be. This person doesn't fit in this reality, and instead of seeming distant and transparent, like a shade, he makes the rest of the wold look distant.

Loki rallies.

"What are you doing here?" he asks, like he knows who this person is. He doesn't. Does he?

[for_that_i_run]

"Intruding on a cute scene, I think."

That had been unintentionally what he had been doing.

"I believe I am just here for a visit, but I am not really sure what this place is."

It did look real enough to him, fantastical, but real. It couldn't be though. Eagle knew that much.

"Maybe you can tell me, just what is this place?"

[bittyfun]

"It's the throne room." The smallest of possible answers. "Tell me who you are." He commands it, imperious as a prince, and though his chin is high, his hands are tense, and he is shivering.

[for_that_i_run]

"The throne room of which country?"

Eagle scanned the room but only this one boy seemed to have noticed him so far. Good then he could linger here in the doorway a little longer to take a better look at the place. The stairs leading to the huge gleaming golden throne. It was clearly a very significant place to the people who lived here.
That accomplished he smiled warmly at the boy.

"Commander Eagle Vision from Autozam and you are?"

[bittyfun]

"Asgard," and Loki was offended. "Not a country, but a Realm, and the greatest of all of them." He suspected that the person in front of him might be a bit thick -- no, or from a place far away from all of this, where he knew nothing anyhow.

"I am Loki, Prince of Asgard," he snapped.

[for_that_i_run]

"Prince Loki of Asgard?"

That was certainly a different introduction than the one he had received before but it made sense as the fellow standing near the throne had already been identified as Loki's father through their earlier interactions.

"It is very nice to meet you. You were playing a little prank just now? Was that on your friend or a brother maybe?"

While he was here he might as well try to learn as much about the the cute kid as he could.

[bittyfun]

"My brother Thor."

Loki started walking, making his way down the passage towards the library, where he often seeks refuge. He moved as though he expected this stranger to come along.

"Why are you here?" he asked. "If you don't know anything."

[for_that_i_run]

So Thor was his brother. Thor had said as much Eagle and he had spoken before but the confirmation was still a nice thing to have.
Eagle lingered in the doorway to the throne room for a bit but ultimately he did decide to follow Loki for a while.

"Because maybe then I could find out more about this place and in turn more about the people I have met."

Really it was a dream and he wasn't sure how he came to be here but that would be difficult to explain.

"You all seem so very close."

It wasn't like what Thor had hinted at. They didn't seem at odds with each other. If anything it seemed like they were a perfectly happy family.

"It must be nice to have a family like that?"

[bittyfun]

Loki's footsteps faltered.

He turned.

"If you mean this place harm," he said -- spies, it was spies who wanted to know things and not to give any information in return -- "then I will make sure you are drawn and quartered. I will make sure you are dead before you could tell anything to Asgard's enemies."

[for_that_i_run]

Drawn and quartered?

"You really do things like that here?" Eagle laughs, not the most common reaction to a threat like that maybe... "Then it is a good thing I am not an enemy spy. I don't think your Asgard would have any kind of information I would want to pass on. And besides," Eagle's voice drops as if he is being conspiratorial, "I would have to be a pretty bad spy to just walk down the halls in the open like this. I would be caught in an instant."

[bittyfun]

"Spies work best in the open." In the places where no one expects them to be. "Everyone searches the shadows."