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.]

Comments

[wisdominshadows]

I think the obvious answer is "nothing pleasant."

[A small grim smile.]

But I don't think there's enough evidence here to be sure until it is upon us. And that worries me all the more.

[marriedanidiot]

Sadly true.

[ She grimaces in agreement ]

Aye - unlike the last... there is nothing specific enough in this one.

[wisdominshadows]

Then yours followed the same pattern? I had hoped someone might have had a different version of the dream... but the only thing which seems to be different is where one is at the start.

[marriedanidiot]

Yes. [ She closes her eyes to recall the dream, just in case there was something extra ]

I was lying beneath the Trees in Tirion in the mingling, the sky silver and gold, and the grass soft beneath. And then... Darkness. And falling. And people screaming. Twas the Darkening all over again.

[ she shudders ]

[wisdominshadows]

[Her brow furrows.]

Forgive me, you've seen something like this before?

[marriedanidiot]

"Like this, yes." She breathes.

"The Darkening... when the Dark Enemy brought Ungoliant and slew the Two Trees, and plunged the world into darkness."