First Dream [Log]

[yumemi_no_ou]

Characters: Shin & Anyone else
Open? Yep
Where: Just outside the smithy or around town
When: RD11
What: Shin's attempting to get the hang of being back in his body again. It's not going so well.



Shin hated being cooped up. While Aralu was willing (mostly) to push him around in the wheelchair that Hawk had made him, but he couldn't help feeling like he was just being a burden and a bother. It didn't help that this was the worst his back had ever been, the bumpy ride in the cart not doing it any favors, and having been astral for even just the few weeks he had been made him all too aware of the pathetic state his body was in.

He had managed the very short walk to the door with little trouble and had sat down heavily in the wheel chair after, waiting for the pain to subside. He could do this. He just had to take it slowly... right...?

With the most careful of motions he grabbed hold of the wheels of his chair, taking great care to not move his back at all as he carefully pulled them forward, the chair inching along. He could do this... as long as he kept his back steady, as long as he went slowly...

...as long as no one ran into him...


... Maybe he'd just go astral and explore that way.




[[OoC: Feel free to spot him after he's given up and gone astral. He'll basically look like a ghost that way]]

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[shadow_sage]

"Well, I can't make any promises, but if I find anything I might be able to use, I'll see what I can do." She frowned, slightly, looking past him for a moment. "I'm not sure what you mean by 'Dreaming,' I'm afraid, but if I learn anything..." She shook her head, and refocused on him. "Magic?" Her voice holds a note of disbelief, but at least she's willing to talk about it.

[yumemi_no_ou]

He blinked in mild confusion. "What, Dreaming? It's not really. It's an ability, not something most people have, but it's not like spells or anything like that. It's kind of like..." he paused. How did you explain that sort of thing? "Kinda like if when you dreamed you woke up in another world that's not really real. But is."

...

"It's kinda hard to explain. I could show you but it's not really a 'middle of a crowded renfair street' kinda thing."

[shadow_sage]

Ability. Well, she's still, a bit, leery of accepting it at face value, but her species can share memories with other people, so she's willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. "Well, someday, you'll have to show me. I'm curious, now." And now she has a rather big smile. "I never liked not knowing."

And if that ability had something to do with the change in circumstance, too, even better.

[yumemi_no_ou]

"Next time you're asleep, I can come visit," Shin offered with a smile. "I'm a lot more tolerable in the Dreaming."

[shadow_sage]

"How do you know my people even need to sleep?" Now, she's just teasing him. You know. A little.

[yumemi_no_ou]

He shrugged, smile still present. "So far all the types I've run into have to. Most of them even dream."

[shadow_sage]

"I imagine the Geth might give you pause, then. I imagine the Rachni dream, but I'm not sure I could share that with them." She studied Shin for a moment. "How many kinds of non-human are you familiar with?"

[yumemi_no_ou]

"Only a few. I was a... guest sort of, of the King of Shadows for a while; those didn't dream since they didn't really have bodies. Astral types are almost always in a state that's like Dreaming though, so I can at least talk to those, but Shadows are different. They're still aware so it still works out okay when I project though."

He paused. "...that wasn't really what you asked, huh?" he smiled, looking almost sheepish. "It's been sort of a whirl wind few months, so... I'm really not too sure."

[shadow_sage]

"It might have been. Your...home...seems rather different from my own." She looked across the street at the storefront. "I've met a dozen species that I took time to really speak with, and there are at least as many more I've not. And except for humans and myself, there doesn't seem to be a single individual from any of them here." She shook her head. "It can be disconcerting."

And now, a little smile. "In the last few years, I went from studying a race dead for 50,000 years to trying to save my own people from extinction. 'Whirlwind' is something I can understand."

[yumemi_no_ou]

"Sounds about as crazy as everything else," Shin nodded with a small smile. "Thankfully I don't think that there was any real risk of Dreamers being extinct... Most everyone managed to stay hidden well enough to avoid being captured and I think we found the rest of everyone else..." He trailed off, looking distant a moment before he shook his head, looking back over. "Hopefully you had similar success."

[shadow_sage]

"Right now, I should be on Earth. In the middle of the last battle. If we lose, I don't see success coming. Survival, for a time, but not success. Everything comes down to someone reaching the Citadel. I would rather not speak of the chances we have of actually making it." No smile, this time.

"But I'm here. So I am going to learn whatever I can about the 'magic' and if Shepard can't win Earth, maybe I can...give us another chance." A moment of silence. Heavy silence. "Sorry," she said. "It's hard not to think about it."

[yumemi_no_ou]

"It's all right. I'm sure if it had been even days ago that I wound up here I'd be worse. The middle of a war is the worst place to be pulled from." It was bad enough he couldn't touch the Dreams of everyone... if the battle with the Alliance had still been going on...!

[shadow_sage]

"Maybe not the worst, but..." She shrugged, took a breath, and crossed her arms. "I trust those I was with. If anyone can win our war, Shepard has them."

[yumemi_no_ou]

"It's just getting yourself to not worry about it while you're away that's the killer, huh?" Shin smiled faintly.

[shadow_sage]

"Exactly."