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[yumemi_no_ou]

Characters: Shin and anyone asleep
Open? Yep!
Where: the Dreaming
When: Nighttime, RD12
What: Shin goes dream walking.
Warnings: Lots of capitalized Ds


Even in Dreams, Shin was restless. Without the normal background hum of hundreds of Dreamers, the Dreaming felt empty. Hollow.

Far to much like it had when his Dreaming had been sealed.

There were still the doors to the dreams of everyone who was asleep, even if so many of them seemed like cardboard cut outs... It was easy to spot the ones of those who weren't native of the world. They were more real, solid, and he could feel more clearly who was behind them. It was something he had noticed before, back home. The doors to fellow Dreamers were the more vibrant and real, and those who had strong powers were a close second. Idly he drifted through the insubstantial hallway, knocking on some to announce his presence, others just phasing into the dream and looking around. After all, it wasn't as if he expected most people to hear him knocking. They'd have to be aware for that, and he knew for a fact that there were no other Dreamers around and active dreamers were rare.


[[OoC: Feel free to notice Shin entering your characters dream, or to just set up a random dream for him to step into!

Edit: Also, since Shin power allows him to manipulate dreams, let me know if you don't want him to be able to with your character's dream, please!]]

Comments

It really is @_@ Any other way you can do it that's easier to decode?

[yumemi_no_ou]

"I can try..." Shin shifted in his chair again before pausing. "Actually, let me just show you a few things, probably easier," he decided, getting up. "The school's a pretty good place to start," he nodded towards the building in the distance. "Mrs. F's school's pretty specialized, for those of us who have no idea anything about our abilities or even how to keep them from blowing things up or whatnot. I think there's only like... 30? of us there. Feels like more some days but I think it's just that," he smiled. "It's more than there were in high school, anyway, and that was a regular school. Most people who have any sort of talent don't really have much problem with them so there was only 3 of us who got the special ed treatment and one of them was that poor precog girl who really just needed to live on a mountaintop somewhere or something," he shook his head slightly.

For showing, he sure was doing an awful lot of talking.

If you imagine that there are pauses and she talks slowly, I can write them normally ;w;

[brokenpiece]

"You must have plenty of memories of this place..."

She trailed off listening to him. It must have been really wonderful to have been born with such natural ability.

"Did everyone have the same ability as yours? Or there were others kind of abilities in that school?"

That would be awesome. You can always work it into dialouge tags and such.

[yumemi_no_ou]

Would have been more wonderful if there hadn't been that whole "hey, we need to seal your ability up so you don't get kidnapped and used for a battery by creepy old guys," part, but he's not about to bring that can of worms up.

"Nah, Dream Walkers are pretty rare, actually. Well, really all abilities are, since there's all these different sorts. You have your precogs, your postcogs, your firebugs, telekenetics, people who see spirits, people who can make illusions, all sorts of things. It's just easier for Dream Walkers to find each other."

[shadedsunlight]

Ginia is silent as she looks out at her daughter. Tara leaps off the swings, and despite having leaped off swings countless times in her own childhood, Ginia's heart stops for a moment as her daughter falls and lands safely on her feet. The girl smiles and waves before running off to play on the jungle gym.

"...I think it's best to keep things as they are right now. I've had enough disappointment in my life. Besides, look how happy she is."

[yumemi_no_ou]

"But are you?"

[shadedsunlight]

"I find happiness to be an elusive sort of thing. Everyone else, maybe, not so much me."

[brokenpiece]

"That sounds impressive."

Specially considering that there was nothing like that in her world.

[yumemi_no_ou]

"What, having all those different types? I guess. It's just kinda how things were," he shrugged. "The mind bending stuff comes when you find out about everything else that's nor just normal people."

[yumemi_no_ou]

"So no, then."

[shadow_sage]

Liara frowned at the screens again. "It's rather difficult to remember everything I've gotten. The universe is a very big place." She glanced at the hovering orb of light. "Even so, without any information coming in, it doesn't really matter how I plan to sort it, does it?"

[yumemi_no_ou]

"But you haven't forgotten any of it, and things like this are really good at finding those things you think you've lost," Shin pointed out. "And there's always information coming in. It's just not from different people, right?"

[folklorist]

His clothes would now be something akin to a school uniform. A white shirt with a green jacket with gold trimming, and black pants to match. Either way students were typically allowed to wear normal clothes on fridays through sunday. So even if Shin hadn't altered his appearance Helios wouldn't have noticed much. Still as he makes his way further down the hall he'll smell the airy aroma of vanilla getting stronger and stronger as he goes deeper. The hallway looks like it stretches on endlessly but the walls on either side are lined with doors.

Shin might notice that he's being followed by something then and there. Black seemingly formless phantom like beings that use the castle's walls and floors as their means of travel. They won't do anything as long as Shin doesn't look like a threat at least.

[yumemi_no_ou]

Huh. Another castle of Shadows...? He watches the shadows move, trying to see if he can tell where they're going, where the hub of the dream is.

Though the source of the scent is a good bet too...

[retrieverchef]

Eliot watched the dream fall away, a mixture of wonder and guilt on his face. "Yeah," he said quietly. Except ot wasn't just a nightmare. There was too much he couldn't undo.

[shadedsunlight]

Ginia laughs again and looks away from Shin, her eyes tracking Tara as she races along a bridge connecting two towers.

"I suppose it's my lot in life. I made my choices, I'll live with them. I don't mind if everyone else is happy. I'm happy too if that's the case."

[shadow_sage]

"Charming. But even I can't memorize data spanning thousands of years and thousands of systems. Mineral resource surveys, studies of indigenous lifeforms, medical research, covert government actions...it becomes a bit overwhelming."

[yumemi_no_ou]

"You don't need to. Just what you're looking for, right?" Shin asked, fingers finally resting on the control panel, bringing it to life.

[yumemi_no_ou]

"You make it sound like you have to be unhappy for them to be happy."

[shadow_sage]

"I've read a few reports on deadly flora on dozens of worlds. If any of them might help..." She leaned back, arms crossed as she watched him.

[yumemi_no_ou]

Shin nodded, fingers moving across the screen. "Try and focus on it, I think it helps..." he commented as he reached through the surface of the dream to the sleeping mind underneath to help her pull up the information. If it was successful at all, it would show up on the screen.

[folklorist]

Not a castle of shadows just shadows that live in a castle. They're typically friendly enough, depending on who it is. The phantoms continue to move down through the hallway. Always pausing to make sure Shin is following and to keep a watch on Shin as he makes his way closer to the kitchen. From the kitchen a warm bright light spills out of casting a separation in the darkness on the floor. The phantoms will idly linger around the kitchen area as if waiting for Shin to enter first.

A man is humming an interesting, though probably unfamiliar, tune as he sits at a table and watches the oven. There's pot of tea on the stove still hot and steaming as water has just been boiled and his own cup steams and produces a lovely smelling aroma of vanilla and chai.

[shadow_sage]

She wasn't exaggerating about having information from all over the galaxy...but there's still a lot there about plants that have proven dangerous for more than being poisonous if eaten. She looked impressed as the screen filled up.

"You do realize that most of this is probably useless, right?"

[yumemi_no_ou]

"Probably. But it makes you feel better to have it, right?"

[yumemi_no_ou]

It's all so very similar to the Amontillado that he half expected to see Helena bent over the stove muttering about a bad date. It almost brings a smile to his face to think of.

He turned, looking at the seated man, checking for signs that this was indeed the dreamer; the extra touch of something more real about him that would make him stand out if you were looking for it.

Though with how the Shadows were leading him, it was a safe guess.