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♈ Aradia: Wake. (backdated to the 9th)

[Aradia wakes up in the same place she fell asleep: sprawled over a couch in the lobby. And man is it disorienting. Her time sense tells her it's been three days, but then how much of that... Her hand goes to her opposite wrist as if looking for a bracelet that isn't there, and she breathes a sigh of relief upon finding it isn't.

No voices in her head, no pain in her body, and nothing dragging her limbs one way or another against her will. She can just lay here on the couch if she wants. So she does. And a quick glance at the journal shows she's missed ... virtually nothing? Huh. Maybe it's broken.]

ughhh
okay im never sleeping outside my cocoon again
especially not for multiple days at a time
worst dream ever
...
did something happen while i was unconscious
the lobby is a mess 0_0

((open for journal or action!! :3))

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[What do you mean, action? There's no one else in the lobby right now! I mean, after a while there's this thumping sound, like someone's running down the stairs-

-Oh. Someone IS running down the stairs. Wrapped in a blanket, no less.

Jane pauses at the end of the staircase and looks over at you with wide eyes. ]

...Aradia?

[Aradia looks back, equally surprised. It is not every day your friends come downstairs looking like a burrito. Plus, there's the briefest moment where she's startled to see her alive... but no, no. That was only a dream.]

Hi, Jane. Are... you okay?

[Oh God...that breaks her heart. After what she saw, it really is a relief to see that Aradia isn't a robot, but...

There are just so many FEELINGS, how does she even begin to describe...?]

O-Of course I am! [She gives Aradia a kind of half smile and draws closer.] And you...?

[Aradia sits up properly and rubs her eyes.] Yeah, I'm fine. Apparently the castle decided it would be cool to knock me out for the last few days. And on the couch, of all places. [She returns the uncertain smile, though.] What'd I miss?

[Jane comes close enough to sit on Aradia's couch, and she does, a frown forming on her face.]

That's - that's really strange, because I fell asleep, too! Right in the middle of reading. I wouldn't know if you missed anything because I've missed it all, too.

[This is way too strange. Way way WAY too strange.]

[Aradia frowns too.]

That is weird. Did it happen to everybody, do you think? There's almost nothing in the journal from the last three days.

[There is some very serious thinking going on.]

It - it could have. Anything's a possibility here. And...you said you had a bad dream?

[The seriousest of thoughts. But at least dreams are easier to talk about.]

Oh - yeah. You know I usually do when I sleep in weird places, but this was way worse than usual. It was like... all the stuff I never want to dream about, all rolled up into one long nightmare.

[Jane chuckles reassuringly.]

Well - to tell you the truth, Aradia, I didn't sleep very pleasantly, either, and I never want to step foot into that dream again.

[Definitely a coincidence, right?]

[Oh yes definitely! Although Aradia has this intrinsic doubt that Jane could have had as bad a dream as she did. It was pretty bad!]

What was yours about?

[There is so much doubt up in here, it's all just silly coincidences out where the dreams can't get them. Jane clutches her blanket a little tighter around her.]

It was. Well. It was strange. Most of the time I felt like I was walking straight into other people's nightmares. Sometimes I could move on my own, and try to snap the others out of it. It was much more frightening when I couldn't. I felt so helpless.

[As she thinks back on them, she laughs nervously.] You know what's the craziest thing, though?

[Aradia listens quietly. She'd certainly had that feeling of helplessness herself while she dreamed, but not for quite the same reason...]

What?

I dreamed that you were a - a robot, of all things! Isn't that strange? I mean, you're not one! I don't know how my mind came up with such a thing!

[She's obviously leaving out the confrontation and the whole getting eaten by horrorterrors thing, but Aradia didn't need to know that, right? They've had it rough enough as it is.]

[Aradia, though, is visibly concerned by this, as she is reasonably sure she never told Jane about the whole robot thing. Besides which, this is getting uncanny ...]

... Jane, was there a monster in your dream? Eating everyone?

[Jane can tell! She observes you curiously before she narrows her eyes.]

...There was. It was in the same one where you were a robot.

How did you know?

[She leans her elbows on her knees, fingers laced as she thinks.]

I think... we had the same dream. All the events happened the same, right? I... it made me its handmaid, I was serving it, and then you were...

[She trails off. If they did have the same dream, Jane knows what comes next anyway, and... it's oddly uncomfortable to talk about the dream in general. But she has to be sure.]

[Jane pales, and shivers as she remembers what happened.]

N-no way! There's no way that could have happened...

[Aradia looks up, slightly alarmed.] Well, no, of course it didn't really happen! Of course not. But we both dreamed about it. [Her eyes drift to the side.] I wonder...

But how could the both of us dream the SAME thing? That doesn't happen!

[huh? is that what Jane's concerned about?]

Yes it does. You know about dream bubbles, right?

Dream what?

Dream bubbles. They're glubbed up by the Nobles of the Furthest Ring, so that the dead and doomed have somewhere to go, and the living of the alpha timeline can continue interacting with them while they sleep - that's only if you no longer have a dream self, though.

Oh my! I had no idea there was such a thing, but...could we really reach them in Paradisa?

No, not usually. We're cut off from a lot of things here. But it may be possible for the castle to create them, if it wants. Or something a lot like them.

[with all that that implies.]

So something like these dream bubbles put everyone to sleep, then? And...possibly connected their dreams?

Well, connected their dreams, anyway. Putting them to sleep would be a separate thing that it could do any number of ways.

[Jane looks around briefly.]

But then there's the mess to account for. Unless everyone sleepwalked and wrecked everything unknowingly, there's no explanation for it.

I had awful dreams, too... Are you okay, Aradia?

yeah im fine now
you too though?

Glad to hear it. And... Yes. I think so.

thats strange enough that im hesitant to write it off as coincidence
youre the second person ive talked to who slept through the same amount of time and had awful dreams for the duration
can i ask what they were about?
just out of curiosity

I'm working on it. I'm glad you're all right.

Edited 2012-10-23 18:44 (UTC)

:33 < i f33l like i was stuck in someone elses dream
:33 < but yeah i had a really bad one too
:33 < im with you im never sl33ping ever again

someone elses dream?
what makes you say that

:33 < well
:33 < you know how when youre dreaming
:33 < and then something pawful starts to happen
:33 < but just before it does you wake up
:33 < i didnt wake up
:33 < in fact it was just really terrible
:33 < and there was a lot of stuff i had never s33n before too

this is bizarre
everyone i talk to is saying exactly the same thing
do you think maybe we actually all were in each others dreams?
...
i mean not that its that weird a concept since thats kind of what we did back home anyway
but still

:33 < wow really?
:33 < maybe we were
:33 < i mean i would ask this purrson but
:33 < i am not really comfortable with appurrching them right now

what person

:33 < i dont want to say
:33 < i dont want you to think any differently of them
:33 < it was a really bad nightmare

to be honest i really doubt id think less of someone over a dream!
but you dont have to say if you dont want
the important thing is its starting to sound like the castle can create dream bubbles of its own

:33 < oh wow really?
:33 < that would explain a lot about what happened i guess
:33 < did you go into someone elses dream bubble too?

yeah at least two for sure
and probably a bunch more
i dont know if they were all memories though or just dreams
mine certainly wasnt a memory

:33 < was your dream bad too?
:33 < i didnt have one of my own but i have a f33ling i would not have liked it

it was pretty bad yes
i was a robot again and stuck in a time loop where i had to feed my friends to a malicious horrorterror over and over :(
im kind of glad you didnt have to see it

:33 < im sorry you had to go through that
:33 < if i could have though i would have gone to s33 it so i could try to help you stop it

heh its alright
its just one of those things we would have had to ride out anyway
and you didnt have to get eaten so thats a plus!

[That's not entirely true. She did enter Mal's dream...]

:33 < yeah
:33 < i just hope it never does that again
:33 < ever

you can say that again

:33 < i just hope it never does that again
:33 < h33 h33

[Get it? Because she told her to say it again. Oh man, Nepeta's got jokes, son.]

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