Audio | Early Egret 24

[wisdominshadows]

If there's anyone else newly awake after an unpleasantly vivid dream, I'd like to speak with you.

[Zelda's voice holds fairly steady over the network, but her voice is slightly horse- as though she'd woken up screaming. Which she probably did, considering.

She lets out one slow breath as she thinks, then continues.]

More specifically... falling. The world dissolving around you. Cries of pain and despair... are any of those familiar? And if not, what else did you See?

[A quiet sigh, and then anyone listening closely can hear a muffled I am sorry about the disturbance, truly- before the connection cuts out.]

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[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin falls out of his bunk with a crash, shouting. Probably waking up his roomies. He rolls to his feet and leaps for the ICP, checking the network quickly. Aha. Just as he thought. ]

You too, Zelda? You dreamed of a disaster?

I dreamed I was lying on the forest floor of a place I loved, a long time ago. The branches were rocking in a soft wind, and the stars were glittering down through the leaves. There was a full moon somewhere above, and its light was bright enough to make the woods a tapestry of glowing silver rays and mysterious shadows.

And then, suddenly, there were enormous dark shapes leaning over me from above the trees, threatening, terrible. I had barely time to spring to my feet and grab my weapons, when the ground literally fell out from under me. I was falling, and there was no longer any world to fall through. Furthermore, there was hardly any me to fall; it was as though I had become a ghost again, only far worse. I heard a whole planet full of voices screaming. I cursed and yelled along with them, and then I woke up.

Eva's right. This feels like a mission dream.

[wisdominshadows]

A place you loved, you said. And it was night?

[Biting her lip; most of the rest corresponds, but the original setting....]

The dreams are at least somewhat individual, then. At least the first part.

[so_dark_a_road]

Yes, the forest in the Pass of Aglon, not far from my castle. It was night, and I had gone out to get some fresh air and a little contemplative time alone.

[ Apparently there was some variation in the possible dream settings. ]

I guess so. But what did you see, Zelda? Where were you, and was it day or night?