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

[steelhearted]

Only a few times. Usually it's my mother trying to warn me of something, or my knight letting me know I'm straying off my path.

[The stranger's reaction is odd--almost disbelieving.]

I can tell when it's Sir Olwen, because he's as terrible as putting himself into my dreams without me noticing as you are. [A smirk.] With my mother, I often don't realize she's spoken to me until I wake.

[yumemi_no_ou]

[[The smile that blooms over Shin's face is the warmest it's ever been and he's unable to help the feeling of utter relief, joy and sense of everything bring right with the world that escapes into the displaced patch of Dreaming around him.

Another Dreamer. Fuck YES! Even if it was a type of Dreamer he hadn't even met yet, it was still-- heck, he couldn't even express it. He wanted to get back to being the King of Dreaming and Dreamers so badly that he was just so overjoyed to find someone that would have been one of his people back home.]]

Normally I do pretty all right. Just not when I walk in on something personal like that. It's kinda like walking in on something you really shouldn't have seen, you know?

[steelhearted]

Uh, not--not really?

[He returns the smile, although he's a bit confused as to what prompted it in the first place.]

[yumemi_no_ou]

[[A blink]] You don't think that was a personal dream?

[steelhearted]

No, I mean--you asked me if I knew, and...I don't. I'm not even sure I know what it is I'm supposed to know or not.

[He scratches the back of his head for a minute, glancing to the side.] But I suppose it wasn't that personal, either. Just my wife saying hello.

[yumemi_no_ou]

[[More like saying good bye... either way...]]

Well. I guess I just sort of assumed it was. [[he shrugged awkwardly]] Never had anything that serious in the dating category of things so... [[...Yep. Awkward]]

So how often do you Dream like this?

[steelhearted]

[A shrug. He can feel his face going warm, just a little around the cheekbones. He laughs awkwardly.] Well, we've only been married for about a week, so...

Hm. Maybe once or twice a month? More if I'm in trouble.

[yumemi_no_ou]

[[a nod]] So like... [[and a pause before he shakes his head]] yeeaaaaah, because classifying it would really do any good. Sorry, going into "king" mode with this, [[looks a little sheepish]]