Take my hand....

[yumemi_no_ou]

Characters: Shin and anyone.
Open? Yep
Where: In your dreams
When: GHB 14
What: Shin's playing around with the Dreaming to try and find some of the answers. Or at least something more than he can find in the Waking.
Warnings: Shin will likely god-mod the setting of whatever dream he enters. It's just kinda what he does. Also, purple prose inner monologue. Again, it's what he does :)



There was sometimes a fine line between the Dreaming and the Waking. Like twilight times between day and night where the memories of dreams still lingered even as tired eyes looked forward into the daylight.

It was a tricky state to replicate, but something Shin had been working on ever since he had realized that his soul didn't fit right in his body any more. Walking the Waking world as a Dreamer, bridging the two worlds as only someone who was becoming the Lord of the Dreaming could... it was almost easier than walking while awake in his broken body.

The only trouble was that it was as if he were a ghost, drifting effortlessly through the streets, searching for the echoes of dreams from the houses around him. The pale bubbles of the locals paper-thin dreams were like those from soap, popping as he drifted near, fading at the slightest touch like shadows to the light....

It was frustrating. To go from a world so rich in dreams, where every person who slept had a rich full dream he could walk into, to one where the number of true dreamers were like flowers in a desert....

He smacked away the thin dream of a napping guard out of spite as he drifted by. Surely someone with a soul was asleep...


[[OoC: Anyone sensitive to spirits or whatever, feel free to spot Shin floating around in town. Everyone else, set up a dream and receive a visitor!]]

Comments

[greatsquirrelhunter]

Laughing was good. Faolan liked people laughing. That meant that they would stay. He whined, ears folding back and tail wagging, and lifted a paw to shake.

See? Faolan is a good boy! Don't leave Faolan alone!

[yumemi_no_ou]

Shin took Faolan's paw in his hand, shaking it. "So, what shall we do? Since I can run in here, I can actually keep up," he smiled. He knew he couldn't replace Hawk... but at least in dreams he could be a poor man's substitute.

[greatsquirrelhunter]

Faolan sat up and the sun cautiously came out from behind a cloud in the dream. Shin would play? Yes! Shin would play with Faolan!

The puppy cavorted around Shin, barking happily before he made a dash to a few feet away. He looked back over his shoulder, barking and wriggling to show that Shin should chase.

[yumemi_no_ou]

Shin scrambled to his feet, rushing after. Oh man, it felt good to be able to be careless about his body again... dreams were the best...!

[greatsquirrelhunter]

Around them, the forest slowly brightened. Before Shin knew it, there were others around them, although not several faces he would expect to see.

[yumemi_no_ou]

Good good, this was more like it should be, the more normal look of Faolan's active dreams.

Even if some of the echoes were missing. It was better than the miserable depressive image he had first entered.

[greatsquirrelhunter]

After a long moment, Faolan ran in a circle and pounced on Shin's leg, clinging to it tightly. He barked a few times, happily.

[yumemi_no_ou]

Shin laughed, reaching down to pick the puppy up to give him a proper hug. "Anything you want to do? Since it's a dream, anything goes!"

[greatsquirrelhunter]

The puppy nuzzled in closer, and in a moment Shin had a boy in his arms. Faolan's arms and legs were wrapped around Shin to hold himself easily, and his head rested on Shin's shoulder.

He looked up, eyes wide. "This?"

[yumemi_no_ou]

"Yeah, we can do that," Shin smiled, shifting to have his arms more fully around the werewolf boy. "Any time you want, we can come in here and do that."