thenearshore | Nights, Into Dreams

Who: Everyone at Forrest's Sleepover
What: The 'sleeping' part of the sleepover proves slightly more eventful than planned.
When: The night of June 21
Where: Lakshmi's temple
Warnings: Some violence (implied and explicit) in individual threads; see warnings in headers.

Well, you know what they say about sleeping on the job.

It's well into the small hours by the time Aya - like many of Forrest's guests - slips into sleep, something she had assured herself she could do tomorrow. It's late, her eyelids are heavy, and she's eaten far too many snacks and, happily nauseated, really doesn't want to move. She curls up on a pile of pillows; at some point she pulls a blanket over herself. Her eyes fall closed--

Morpheus sleeps, and it really should have occurred to her what that might mean. It had been a joke, really: of course the God(dess) of Dreams would be right at home at a sleepover. But it's during sleep she is at her most powerful, weaving a tangled and chaotic web from the threads of Forrest's guests' dreams.

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OOC: Aya is the reincarnation of Morpheus, God of Dreams; her powers include dreamwalking and bringing back small items from her dreams. Tonight, her powers are affecting the guests at Forrest's sleepover, allowing any of them the (entirely optional) chance to take a trip into one another's dreams. As to what they might find there, well, that's where this log comes in. Start a thread about your own character's dreams, or or drop in on other people's and hope they're not having that one dream about showing up to an exam in their underwear.

(If you would like Aya to retrieve a small item from a dream for your character, please let me know! Items have to be obtainable on present-day Earth, inanimate, small enough for her to keep about her or carry and not used as a weapon.)

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[ She stops for a bit. ]

How can you say that it wouldn't be my fault?

[ She's genuinely concerned by that statement. ]

It would be my fault if I saw someone in trouble and turned away, when I know I can help somehow.

Because you didn’t get me into this situation, that’s how.

[ His face takes on a stubborn look. ]

You don’t need to risk getting hurt for me.

[ She shakes her head. ]

That's not the point. You're my friend.

[ And she casts her first Borderline to D2's left side, then another to his right - which she couldn't do for real - and then another to the far side behind him and another in front of him, effectively boxing him. ]

BORDERLINE!

[ Together, they all shine a light like a flashlight outwards, trying to dispel the dark dream and negative thoughts with it. ]

But...

[ He's not worth such an effort. Or risking injury.

But apparently it's not going to matter to Kairi, for some reason, because he's suddenly trapped in a box of borderlines.

Maybe it would help - whatever she's trying to do - if he made another box. He doesn't know why but he can't focus enough on it, despite not having a single problem with it when he's engaging ayakashi. ]

[ She lets her Borderlines down only after she feels like they're mostly alone again. The borderlines wouldn't normally be able to repel ayakashi and the like, but the nightmare is the kind of thing where her light can shine. Finally, she walks forward near him again and offers her hand to help him up. ]

There. Should be fine now, right?

[ Not focusing at all on the fact that he'd tried to tell her to leave. ]

[ He shouldn't want to just bury his face against his knees for a while but he does. He doesn't do that though, just feels like he wants to. Instead he runs a hand over his face and sighs.

He's very hesitant when he takes her hand, but he does take it. ]

Kairi, you...

[ How should he say this.... ]

....don't always listen, do you...?

[ He really just wants the people he likes to not get into trouble because of him. He would feel really guilty if any of them got hurt because of him. ]

You caught me. I don't always listen. Because sometimes what I'm hearing doesn't make sense.

[But she helps him to his feet anyway.]

I told you I had the power to help, didn't I?

[It's not really D2 getting the brunt of her thoughts right now. It's a lingering feeling of being left behind because... of something, but mainly because of not being able to help.]

I think it makes a lot of sense.

[ He sighs and shakes his head. ]

Yeah but, it's risky to do that sometimes.

Risky doesn't mean it's not worth it.

[She'll stand firm on that point.]

Come on, let's get out of here before anything bad comes back. Somewhere nicer - although the jungle isn't too humid I guess.

[Yes she's offering to help him walk it off essentially.]

[ She's right. He knows that. There are things he'd do even if they were risky, too. ]

I suppose so...

[ He shakes his head to clear it, then lets his gaze wander across their surroundings more properly than he had previously. ]

As long as we don't cross any wild animals, the jungle should be fine.

[Yes good agree with her.]

Do you have a favorite animal that you hope we DO run into?

[Why yes she's attempting to make small talk as they walk through the dream.]

[ He’s still unsure about doing that. ]

Not as far as I know but, maybe mongooses? Since that is my vessel form.

[ ….is? Maybe it’s was instead? He doesn’t know. It changes with a new name, doesn’t it? ]

What about you?

A mongoose?

[She laughs a little bit. Wow. What a different creature.]

I don't think I've even seen one of those up close before.

[Then she taps her chin.]

I turn into a pair of gloves, so mine's not too easy. Maybe a dolphin? So not really a jungle creature... uhmm.... a tree frog?

A mongoose. I don’t know if there are any here but maybe we’ll see one. Otherwise I have a photo in my phone.

[ He already showed it to Kaya, he can show it to Kairi too. ]

There should be frogs around in a jungle though, don’t you think?

Yeah, you'd think there would be...

[But as she steps, the ground starts to give way. Not like the ground is wet, but like the whole thing just sunk in a way that felt more like missing a step or losing her balance.]

Do you feel that? It feels... kinda weird...

[And she even starts yawning.]

[ He can feel a bit of a weird feeling, like a downward pull. Not his body, but his mind. It feels weird, and it’s as if it’s pulling at his eyelids too. ]

Yeah….definitely.

[ Falling asleep in a dream to wake up or keep dream-wandering is not what he thinks is going to happen but the pulling is making him tired. ]

Nights, Into Dreams

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Wrap soon ish?

yeah

Cool. Insert wibbly-wobbly noises here, aka wrap on my end.

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